"Quercetani - Latin Text Of Dietetics. Printed In Paris In 1606."
QUERCETANI (Joseph du Chesne) - Jos. Quercetani doctoris regii diateticon polyhistoricon. Opus utique varium, magna utilitatis ac delignationis, quod multa, historica, philosophica, & medica, tam confernadaesanitati, quam varyscurandis morbis necessaria contineat. Paris, Chez Claude Morelle, 1606; in-8, 463 pp. and table, full contemporary vellum binding, smooth spine, traces of laces. Joseph du Chesne (in Latin Josephus Quercetanus), sieur de la Violette and baron de Morence, is a French chemist, alchemist, doctor, writer and diplomat born around 1544 in Armagnac, died August 20, 1609. One of the first texts to be treated of dietetics. First edition.