Ouvrage de Pénélope, ou, Machiavel en medecine
By: par Aletheius Demetrius
Contributors: La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751
Publisher: [Elie Luzac]
Published: 1748
Place of publication: Berlin [i.e. Leyden]
Language: fre
Subjects: Medicine; Anecdotes; Early works to 1800; Humor
Other titles: Ouvrage de Pénélope; Machiavel en médecine; Supplément à l'Ouvrage de Pénélope.
Notes: Vol. 3 has title: Supplément à l'Ouvrage de Penelope.

Vol. 2 includes a reprint of Politique du medecin.

Actual place of publication and publisher from Göttingische Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen, Aug. 1, 1748, p. 674-77. Cf. W.T.M. Thijssen, "Some new data concerning the publication of 'L'homme machine' and 'L'homme plus que machine'," Janus, v. 64 (1977), p. 175.

Pagination: v.1: [4], x, [34], 144, 238, [2] p.; v.2: [4], 367, [1] p.; v.3: [4], 178, *175-*178, 179-212, *201-*212, 213-386 p.

Rare Book copy: Complete with the half titles but bound without the page of binder's instructions sometimes found at the end of volume 3. Bound in modern boards, all edges gilt, spines direct-lettered in gilt.