‎QUERCETANUS Jos. [DUCHESNE Joseph]‎
‎Diaeteticon Polyhistoricon. Opus utique varium, magnae utilitatis ac delectationis, quod multa historica, philosophica & medica, tam conservandae sanitati, quam varijs curandis morbis‎

‎Parisiis [Paris], apud Claudium Morellum 1606 One volume: 6, 1-171 (i.e.170), 369-463 [i] [2bl] [4] [2bl] pp., Text is complete (pagination of 1 to 171 accounts for a double page each), frontispiece with engraved portrait is missing, 1st edition, title page with printer's device and with old engraved ex-libris tipped in: "Ex bibliotheca Cardinalis & Principis a Dietrichstain" and with one handwritten ex-libris in lower corner, text in Latin, 18cm., contemporary full leather binding (some wear and loss at corners and at ends of spine, gilt decoration at spine and boards, five small wormholes in cover, one of which results in a very small hole in the first 12 pages), text is bright and clean with only few occasional browning, [The author, Joseph du Chesne, born in +/- 1544 in Armagnac and died in 1609, was an alchimist, chemist and diplomate. He married a granddaughter of the French humanist Guillaume Budé, and spent great part of his life in what is nowadays Switzerland (Basel & Geneva). In 1593 in Paris he was appointed physician in ordinary to king Henry IV. His "Diaeteticon" contains three parts, the first dealing mainly with psychology, the second with nutrition (esp. bread, wine and water) and physiology, the third is dealing with health care in relation with medicine], W90389‎

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