Autograph letter signed ("Bocquillot") to Philippe Hecquet (1661-1737), a famous doctor in Paris; n.p., 21 September [16]93
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel, a bifolium. In French. A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies (what he calls "monsters"). Bocquillot answers that in some cases the deformity is.....