Astrologia Gallica principiis & rationibus propriis stabilita, atque in XXVI. libros distributa. [...] The Hague, Vlacq, 1661. In-folio marbled calf, spine, title page (later summary binding, 19th c.). [12] ff. 784 pp.
Posthumous first edition illustrated with some figures in the text and his etched portrait. In his main treatise, Jean Baptiste Morin de Villefranche (1583-1656), a physician and mathematician at the Collège Royal, aims to rehabilitate astrology, which was increasingly disdained in his day. Caillet 7784.
Wormholes in the upper margin of several leaves, a few tears and leaves with shorter margins, worn binding.
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