Prospectus for two competitions, open to scholars... Lot 49

Prospectus for two competitions, open to scholars from all nations, for the sum of fifty thousand pounds sterling! By an English physician. French edition by Mr. Lafon. London [Paris], P. Antoine et Pierre Barbier, 1784, 8°, XXIV- 384, full brown basane of the time, smooth spine decorated (worn binding. By, probably, Lafon, perhaps Jean-Baptiste Lafon (°1764), the "English doctor" and and the "competitions" are fictitious. Prospectus of the first competition: project of the education of the princes, pp. [1]-306; Prospectus of the second competition: project of a medical corps, pp. [307]-384. Rare curiosity.