Popular Errors / Laurent Joubert ; translated and annotated by Gregory David de Rocher
1989, 1st edition. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426437
ISBN: 0817304088
Contents; Contents; Acknowledgments; Translator's Preface; Introduction; Laurent Joubert and the Erreurs populaires; Editions of the Erreurs populaires; Inventory of the 1578 Millanges Edition; Description of the 1579 Millanges Edition; Table of Equivalence; Selected Bibliography; Preliminary Matter; Apologetic Letter by Louys Bertrauan; Letter by the Author to His Friends; Table of Contents of the Popular Errors; Medley [1578]; Medley [1579]; Letter by the Author to the Broad-Minded and Studious Reader; The Five Books of Popular Errors; Appendixes - A: Division of the Entire Work into Six Parts Containing Thirty BooksB: Liminal Poems; C: The Printer's Letters to the Reader; D: Joubert's Apologetic Letter to the Queen of Navarre ; E: Printer's Documents of Publishing Rights; F: Chapter Headings of "La santé du prince."; Notes; Index. Subjects; 16th century. Medical misconceptions Early works to 1800. Medicine, Medieval. Medicine, Popular Early works to 1800. Medical misconceptions.
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