LESSIUS (Leonard). The True Way of Life for the Preservation - Lot 170

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LESSIUS (Leonard). The True Way of Life for the Preservation - Lot 170
LESSIUS (Leonard). The True Way of Life for the Preservation of the Health of Body and Soul, and for the Perfect Use of Judgment, Memory, and All the Senses Until Extreme Old Age, Without the Use of Any Medicine[…]. Accompanied by a treatise by Louis Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman, on the same subject. Paris, Gervais Clousier, 1646. In-12, soft ivory vellum (contemporary binding). Following Lessius’s treatise, this volume includes Louis Cornaro’s *Treatise on Sobriety* and the French translation of three chapters from a Latin treatise by Jean Vuiring entitled *On Ecclesiastical and Medicinal Fasting*. Some old water stains and two brown-stained quires; one folio missing from the preface to the reader; folio 61 mistakenly numbered 63 and folio 152 numbered 115.
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