[Rarebooks] FS: Gui Patin: LETTRES CHOISIES

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Patin, Guy (Gui). LETTRES CHOISIES DE FEU M. GUY PATIN-DANS 
LESQUELLES SONT CONTENUES PLUSIEURS PARTICULARITES HISTORIQUES, SUR 
LA VIE & LA MORT DES SCAVANS DE CE SIECLE, SUR LEURS ECRITS, & SUR 
PLUSIERS AUTRE CHOSES CURIEUSES DEPUIS L'AN 1645 JUSQU'EN 1672. 
AUGMENTEES DE PLUS DE 300. LETTRES DANS CETTE DERNIERE EDITION; ET 
DIVISEES EN DEUX VOLUMES .... [TWO VOLUMES].  Paris: Chez Jean Petit, 
1692. Frontis, [xx], 573 pp.; 583 pp. 16mo. (16 cm). Bound in vellum, 
all edges marbled.  Second edition. Osler 5277; Brunet p.438; Rahir 
576.

CCCCCXLVII letters, many dealing with medical subjects. "Gui Patin is 
unique in our annals. There is no one for comparison, Scores of 
doctors have written letters; none save his remain as a permanent 
contribution to literature... Successor of Riolan (fils) in the chair 
of Medicine and dean of the Faculty in 1650 and '51, he contributed 
little or nothing to the literature of the profession. He was a 
brilliant lecturer and all Paris flocked 'a ses Theses comme a une 
comedie'....He was a devoted booklover and collected a library of ten 
thousand volumes....The letters were written to intimate friends... 
[and] are his life -a journal intime, from which ones learns to 
forgive the bitter hater and the obstructionist, and to love the man 
for his spirit, his books and his friends," William Osler, 
Bibliotheca Osleriana.

Books plates of Hector de Backer, former president of the Societe des 
Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, whose library was auctioned 
in 1926 and Johann Joseph Freyherr v. Griset...

Vellum with scattered soiling, owner's bookplates, small rubber stamp 
mark to free endpaper of volume one, and title page of volume two, a 
few preliminary leaves with faint foxing, otherwise quite clean, 
leaves crisp and firmly bound; a very good or better set of this 
classic in an early but much enlarged edition.  [26113] $300

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