CLEMENT, Gabriel (born c.1586)

Le trespas de la peste . Par Gabriel Clement natif de Nantes en Bretagne, Conseiller & Medecin ordinaire du Roy

Paris: chez Jeremie & Christophle Perier, à la grand' Salle du Palais, proche les Consultations, 1626.
8vo: a8 A--E8 F4; a--d8 (blank d8), 86 leaves, pp. [16] 91 [1]; 62 [2] (last 2 pages blank). Woodcut device on title, headpieces and initials; engraved portrait of the author on a8 verso signed 'I. Bla[n]chin fecit'. Leaf size and condition: 162 x 102mm. Corners of first few leaves worn; light waterstains. Binding: Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance and annotation: Book label of J. B. St. Colas Canon (nineteenth or early twentieth-century). References: OCLC 26098359 (Chicago and NLM, but not in Krivatsy).
First edition.
§ A rare work on the plague by an obscure physician of Nantes. He seems to be unknown to the usual medical biographers and his dates unknown to library cataloguers. However the fine portrait of him in this, apparently his only surviving work, shows him aged 40, so he must have been born around 1586. The book is dedicated to the Duc de Retz and Beaupreau and contains verses addressed to the author by F. Guyraud. OCLC locates copies at Chicago and in the National Library of Medicine. The only other copies I can find are two in libraries in Paris (St. Geneviève and Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire) and a copy in the British Library.

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