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Publicado por Amsterdam: 1716., 1716
Librería: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., vi, 153 [i.e. 253], [1]errata, [10]index. title in red & black. engraved frontis. old paper-covered bds., functionally rebacked (numbers on spine, perforated library stamp on title & another leaf, institutional bookplate). Third Revised Edition (first: 1715) of this popular satire on pedantry and medical quackery. Included is a satirical epistle written by Christoph August Heumann [1681-1763] under the pseudonym of Sebastian Stadel. The frontispiece depicting a medicine show has the semi-literate caption Muntus fuld tezibi (Mundus vult decepi). The author, a native of Leipzig, became historiographer to Frederick Augustus, King of Poland in 1708. Bib. Osleriana 5137. Blake p. 301. Brunet III 1620. cfCaillet 7367.