GOEUROT, Jean (fl. 1530). Le Sommaire et entretenement de vie tressingulier de toute medecine et cirurgie speciallement contre toutes maladies sourvenantes quotidiennement au corps humain. [?Paris: I.D. ca. 1530]. Small 8° (127 x 82mm). Black letter. Bâtarde type, title in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, full-page woodcut device on final leaf verso [i.e. L8] incorporating the initials I.D. (Occasional light soiling.) 20th-century dark brown morocco gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Librería Babra, 1931.
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GOEUROT, Jean (fl. 1530). Le Sommaire et entretenement de vie tressingulier de toute medecine et cirurgie speciallement contre toutes maladies sourvenantes quotidiennement au corps humain. [?Paris: I.D. ca. 1530]. Small 8° (127 x 82mm). Black letter. Bâtarde type, title in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, full-page woodcut device on final leaf verso [i.e. L8] incorporating the initials I.D. (Occasional light soiling.) 20th-century dark brown morocco gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Librería Babra, 1931.

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GOEUROT, Jean (fl. 1530). Le Sommaire et entretenement de vie tressingulier de toute medecine et cirurgie speciallement contre toutes maladies sourvenantes quotidiennement au corps humain. [?Paris: I.D. ca. 1530]. Small 8° (127 x 82mm). Black letter. Bâtarde type, title in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, full-page woodcut device on final leaf verso [i.e. L8] incorporating the initials I.D. (Occasional light soiling.) 20th-century dark brown morocco gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Librería Babra, 1931.

An early edition of Goeurot's popular medical treatise, which places particular emphasis on diet to prevent plague, maintain good health, etc. Because various early editions are undated there is uncertainty about when the first edition was published, but it was probably at Troyes c.1524. All the early editions are rare. ABPC records just one, published ca. 1540, sold by Christie's in 1996 for £1200 hammer. This edition not in Wellcome, Durling, or G & M.