PRINTED 1692 SELECTED LETTERS OF GUY PATIN DR. OF MEDICINE PROF. COLLEGE ROYAL

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Up for auction is two volumes of a rare three volume set :
Lettres Choisies De Feu Mr. Guy Patin Docteur en Médecine de la faculté de Paris & Professeur- au College Royal. dans lesquelles sont contenues plusieurs particularités historiques sur la vie & la mort des savants de ce siècle, sur leurs écrits & plusieurs autres choses curieuses depuis l'an
1645 jusqu'en 1672 Tome 1 Guy Patin Published by Pierre du Laurens, 1691. Vol. 464pp.  and Vol. II 410 pp.
A rough English translation of the title :
Selected Letters From the late Mr. Guy Patin Doctor of Medicine from the Faculty of Paris & Professor at the College Royal. in which are contained several historical particularities on the life & death of the scientists of this century, on their writings & several other curious things since the year.
Condition : Acceptable. Small volumes measuring “4 x 6 “ bound in full leather.  Both volumes show heavy wear to boards and spine. Expect much loss to the leather along spine, ( flaking off) missing sections along spine (see my photo), dry leather, bumped corners, and weak hinges. Internally still bound but fairly fragile one volume shows a signature in pencil front end paper   “S.H. Bush important 1/2 fr”Paris 1906 “ overall expect pages  to be toned with very little foxing. As always any questions feel free to ask.
“Guy (or Guido) Patin (1601 in Hodenc-en-Bray, Oise – 30 August 1672 in Paris)
was a
French doctor and man of letters.
Patin was doyen (or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650–1652) and professor in the Collège de France starting in 1655. His scientific and medical works are not considered particularly enlightened by modern medical scholars (he has sometimes been compared to the doctors in the works of Molière).
He is most well known today for his extensive correspondence: his style was light and playful (he has been compared to early 17th century philosophical libertines), and his letters are an
important document for historians of medicine.
Patin and his son Charles were also dealers in clandestine books, and Patin wrote occasional poetry (such as a quatrain to honor Henric Piccardt (1636-1712)”