Plague.- Paré (Ambroise) Traicté de la peste, first edition, title within woodcut border, penultimate f. with large woodcut printer's device on verso, with final blank, some small marginal worming, occasionally within printed side-notes, light browning and damp-staining, Paris, André Wechel, 1568, bound with Fazio (Silvestro) Paradoxes de la Peste, date to title in later manuscript, A5-7 defective at fore-edge with some text loss, E8 marginal defect without text loss, light browning, damp-stained at foot, Paris, F. Bourriquant, 1620, together 2 works in 1 vol., 17th century mottled calf, spine gilt and with morocco label, minor worming to upper part of spine, rubbed with some wear to extremities, 8vo (165 x 100mm.).

⁂ First edition of Paré’s extremely rare treatise on the plague, smallpox and measles, based upon his own direct observations of these diseases. Considered among the best of his writings, the work is known for its careful symptomatology and thorough description of treatment. The second work in the volume is the first edition in French of Facio’s Paradoxes de la Peste, a rare treatise in dialogue form on the plague epidemic in Milan.