Medicine.- Riolan (Jean)

Opera Medica: Tam hactenus edita quam postuma, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer’s device on title, some worming (until quire H), paper flaw to K7, 1619; bound with Chirurgia, third edition, woodcut printer’s device on title, small worm trail to a few quires, marginal staining to last 4 gatherings, 1618, contemporary limp vellum, title inked to spine, soiled, spine browned, repairs to front endpaper, 8vo, Plantin, Paris.

*** Jean Riolan (the Younger) (1577 – 1657) was a French anatomist who was an influential member of the Medical Faculty of Paris. His father, Jean Riolan (the Elder) (1539-1605) was also a noted French anatomist. The younger Riolan was a one-time personal physician to Marie de' Medici (1553-1642).