[LAMPÈRIÉRE (J. de). L'Ombre de Necrophore vivant chartier de l'Hostel Dieu. To Sieur Iovyse, a doctor who deserts the Plague. Sur la Sagesse de sa Cabale, & autres Grippes de son Exament. Rouen, David Ferrant, 1622. In-8 contemporary cream vellum. Binding faded, vellum missing from spine. Light marginal foxing, a few small wormholes. Very large tear on pp. 125-126. Rare first edition of this personally inappropriate medical polemic between Jean de Lampérière and David Jouyse, physicians at the Hôtel-Dieu in Rouen, concerning an essay on the plague written by the former and strongly criticised by the latter. Editions by David Ferrant are rare in their own right. Ex-libris J.M. (Barbier III, 709.)