Traite des Embaumemens: Selon les Anciens et les Modernes

Louis Penicher

Paris

:

Barthelemy Girin

,

1699

.
First Edition.

15cm x 9cm. [xxiv], 315, [3] pages. Full brown leather, gilt lettering and decoration. Text is in French.

A journal on the trade of embalming according to the Ancients and the Moderns. With a description of some balsamic & fragrant compositions. By Louis Penicher, former guard of the apothecary merchants of Paris and renowned master of pharmacy. First and only edition of this rare French treatise on embalming.

Aged reback, some chipping to spine. Foxing and minor soiling. A few small closed tears. Good Condition.