L'excellent poudre de l'unique secret de l'Orvietan, dispensé par le sieur Jean-Louis Contugi, dit l'Orvietan : successeur testamentaire de Jean Vitrario, heritier du sieur Jerôme Feranti, original inventeur dudit orvietan.

[Paris] : [J.-L. Contugi], [between 1709? and 1719]

1 broadside ; 25 cm

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Single sheet advertisement (verso blank) explaining method of taking "orviétan" and warning against pirates during Contugi's absence in Rome

Address given as "ma Boutique au bout du Pont-neuf, au coin de la rue Dauphine, à l'Enseigne du Soleil"

J.-L. Contugi died in 1719, aged about 35, having in 1700 been promised the extension of his father's royal privilege on attaining 25 (see C.S. Le Paulmier, L'Orviétan: histoire d'une famille de charlatans du Pont-neuf, Paris, [1893?], spelling Contugi's predecessors as Jean Vitrario and Hieronymo Ferranti).

Copy 1 Note: Top left-hand corner cut away