Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(GALENUS, CLAUDIUS.) Stephanus of Athens. Explanationes in Galeni priorem librum therapeuticum ad Glauconem. Latin translation and notes by Agostino Gadaldini. [24], 83, [1] leaves. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened, with handwritten title in ink, ties lacking; few gatherings browned toward end. Venice: apud Juntas, 1554

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first edition in latin of a commentary on Galen by a Byzantine physician; the original Greek text was published in 1553. Choulant, Handbuch, page 138; Durling 4262; Hoffmann III, 443; Sarton I, 478-79.