LIÉBAUT (Jean). - Lot 44

LIÉBAUT (Jean). Trois livres de l'embellissement et ornement du corps humain. Paris: Jacques Du Puis, 1582. -In-8, 155x98: (8 ff.), 463 pp., (7 ff.). Brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (17th century binding). First French edition of this treatise on cosmetology, published at the same time as the Latin edition. It was written by Jean Liébaut (1535-1596), a medical doctor and son-in-law of Charles Estienne. It contains a wealth of recipes for preserving the body's beauty, largely borrowed from those published by Italian physician Giovanni Marinelli in his 1562 work Ornamenti. The work is divided into three books, covering all parts of the body. There are recipes for: "Le teinct rougeastre - Le teinct gasté de dartres - Le teinct gasté de plusieurs fissures - Le teinct wriné - L'asperité, rudesse, rigidité & crassitie des poils - Les pouxes, lendes & morpions, qui naissent & croissent à l'étour du poil - Les vices des sourcils - Blanchir les dens noires ou rousses. - Tortuous or humpbacked nails - Livid & black nails - Wrinkled & cracked bellies - Foot stink - Leather vices all over the body - Excrement stink. Et premierement de la matière fécale - La Puanteur d'urine - Les ordures d'oreilles - La Puanteur d'haleine. etc." First board hinge cracked, head and spine ends missing, corners dulled. Restored tear to lower corner of title leaf. Stains to folio n6 with small perforations affecting text. Provenance: A. de Grateloup, with signature at the top of the first flyleaf. - Librairie A. Lauria, with stamp under the signature.