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LONGEVILLE (Harcouet de).
A History of People Who Lived for Several Centuries and Regained Their Youth. Including the Secret of Rejuvenation, taken from Arnaud de Villeneuve.
Paris, published by Veuve Charpentier and L. Le Comte, 1715.
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A History of People Who Lived for Several Centuries and Regained Their Youth. Including the Secret of Rejuvenation, taken from Arnaud de Villeneuve.
Paris, published by Veuve Charpentier and L. Le Comte, 1715.
Small 12mo, (11) leaves, 343 pp., (1) f. 19th-century pine-coloured morocco, raised spine, title, place and date in gold, richly decorated panels, triple gilt fillet edging the covers, interior lace, gilt edges [Capé] (top and bottom edges slightly rubbed, foxing).
A. Renaud, liqueur maker in Lyon (1825–1897; engraved bookplate). Dorbon, 2753, ‘An extremely rare and highly curious work’. Guaita, 1558.
A rare first edition of this curious work, the second and final one published by the author following a short *Description of the Great Waterfalls of the Royal House of Saint-Cloud*, which appeared in 1706. A text frequently cited and sought after by enthusiasts of alchemy and the occult sciences. Chapter XXII presents Arnaud de Villeneuve’s [c. 1240–1311] ‘Method for “performing the great work of rejuvenation”’. Caillet provides a different collation of the introductory folios; this copy conforms to that held by the BnF, catalogue number 30830448, which has been digitised; a blank folio is likely missing at the end here (Caillet, 6782). A fine copy, perfectly prepared by Capé.