Woodcut printer’s device on title. 8 p.l., 347, [18] pp. Small 4to, cont. blind-stamped pigskin-backed green vellum over boards (the vellum is a palimpsest), “A.S. 1594” stamped in black on pigskin of upper cover. Paris: M. Juvenis, 1578.

First edition and a lovely copy; “Coytard distinguished between petechial typhus and typhoid.”–Garrison-Morton 5372.1. Hirsch, II, p. 133 considers this work to be one of the first examples of modern epidemiological investigation. Coytard (d. 1590), was a physician at Poitier and later at Loudun. This book is the result of his investigations of a typhus epidemic that occurred in 1557 in the region of... More