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4to, pp. 15, [1]; woodcut device to title-page (a crown with vines and the motto 'Vive Jesus et Louis'), woodcut headpieces and initials; final leaf worn (dusty on blank verso, several holes (not affecting text, but the wear touching a couple of letters on the preceding lead); withal, a good copy, disbound.Second edition, revised, a guide to the waters at Bagnères-de-Bigorre in South-West France by a local physician, dedicated to the young Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc de Maine (1670 1736), son of Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Montespan. Louis-Auguste was born with one leg shorter than the other, and among the treatments he was subjected to as a child was a visit, incognito (though evidently not enough so), to the Pyrenean spa towns of Barèges and nearby Bagnères, where the waters, according to De la Guthère, 'in restoring the use of your limbs, have given you something more precious than life itself' (trans.), and where he encountered wounded soldiers seeking the healing waters after the battle of Seneffe (1674).The main part of the guide is in eight chapters, covering the nature of the waters, the best time to take them, how to prepare, what to do afterwards, and popular errors; chapter five is directed admonishingly at drinkers of the waters 'qui ne devient heureux en bevant à go go'.Very rare. Of the first edition (Toulouse 1659), we can trace copies at Bourdeaux and the British Library. This edition, with the new dedication to Louis-Auguste, is recorded at Edinburgh only in COPAC and OCLC. Language: French. Seller Inventory # E4822.42
Bibliographic Details
Title: Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.
Publisher: Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.
Publication Date: 1680
Edition: 1st Edition
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