Beschreibung:

Eminentissimo Cardinali duci Iulio Mazarino compositae pacis, Carmen, Paris: no publisher, 1659, title with early ink inscriptions, bound with Ludovico Magno pacis assertori, Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1679, first leaf with previous repair to outer lower corner, and Serenissimo Principi Delphino carmen paraeneticum, [Paris: no publisher], circa 1670s, first leaf with small hole (affecting one letter), second leaf with previous repair to blank verso, and Catharsis, sive ars purgandi corporis humani... carmen heroicum, Paris: Jean Henault, 1666, early ink alteration to text on page 20, and Hippopotamia sive modus profligandi morbos per sanguinis missionem ab hippopotamo monstratus, Carmen..., Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1672, five works bound in one, woodcut decorations to text, preliminary blank with ink stamp 'Bibliotheca Heberiana', front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Stirling hinges strengthened, contemporary calf, rebacked, front cover with blind-stamped monogram 'WS', some wear to extremities, 4to A collection of five very rare neo-Latin poems, all first editions, written by the physician and poet Nicolas Gervaise (1610-72), variously praising Cardinal Mazarin on the Treaty of the Pyrenees, Louis XIV and the Dauphin, and discussing purging of the body and hippopotamuses blood sweat. Gervaise studied medicine at Montpellier, and served as personal physician to Nicolas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances, and to Louis XIV. (1)