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166020032Amsterdam:: Elzevier Jaques le Jeune 1660. 12mo. ¹1 A-L12M10. Full old calf worn corners chipped. Banded spine with gilt decoration worm damage to head and tail of spine; red speckled edges. Lacks endpapers worming to front pastedown and lower left margin of t.p. with no loss of text. Browning occasional damp stain. Engraved t.p. Cureau 1594-1675 French popularizing author academician and physician to Louis XIII was a protege of Seguier. One of the first to write of scientific and philosophical subjects in French he produced works on chiromancy on light and rainbows on the passions on the system of the soul and on the question of rationality in animals. He was one of the most famous palmists of the 17th century. Richelieu singled him out to be one of the first members of the French Academy. STCN 166012. Willems 1260. Caillet 2728 'Jolie edition'. Krivatsy 3007incpl. Cantamessa 1187. [Elzevier] Jaques le Jeune, unknown
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