Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ALBUCASIS [i. e., Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi]. Liber theoricae nec non practicae Alsaharavii. Title in red and black with woodcut illustration by Hans Burgkmair. [6], 159 leaves; lacks last leaf with printers' woodcut device (replaced with facsimile). Folio, late 19th-century 1/4 vellum, front joint partly cracked; opening leaves foxed, otherwise generally quite clean internally. Later signature on title of "Justus Laigneau, Doctor Medicus Patavinus." (Augsburg: Sigismund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, 24 March 1519)

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