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Place of creation/publication
France -- Paris, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
273037
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "17. BARIC (Arnauld). THE SAFE PROCESS OF DISINFECTING PEOPLE, HOUSES, ANIMALS & STABLES, IN TIMES OF CONTAGION, to stop the course [...]. (Original title in French: LA CONDUITE ASSEUREE DU DESINFECTEMENT DES PERSONNES, DES MAISONS, DES ANIMAUX & DES ESTABLES, EN TEMPS DE CONTAGION, pour en arrester le cours [...].) Paris, Emmanuel and Jacques Langlois, 1668, in-24, soft ivory vellum, smooth spine, trace of water stain at the beginning of the volume. $2,000 Rare first edition of this title. Founder of the Saint-Joseph de la Grave General Hospital in Toulouse, fierce opponent of the Jesuits, died in 1668, Arnaud Baric (1607-1668) was the disciple of the Hermit Priest Loy Ribeyron who had distinguished himself by the effectiveness of his remedies during the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged Toulouse in the years 1628-1632. As early as 1646, Baric published in Toulouse “Les rares secrets, ou remèdes [...] contre la peste,” (“The rare secrets, or remedies [...] against the plague”) based on his precepts and his own observations. He often opposed the Capitouls and remains in history for having "implemented all possible means to remedy the scourge of public misery and pauperism in a difficult period, crossed by numerous epidemics of plague". (cf. Marguerite-Marie Shibano, “Arnaud Baric, apostolic missionary” in Annals of the South: archaeological, historical and philological review of southern France, Volume 100, No. 182, 1988). [Ref. 38747]" Ordered from Rodolphe Chamonal, D9787, 2024-11-27, Antiquarian Books, Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair November 8-10, 2024, item #17
