Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ARETAEUS. De causis et signis acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor. De curatione acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary by Pierre Petit, John Wigan, Daniel Wilhelm Triller, and Michael Maittaire; edited by Hermann Boerhaave. [10], 26, 604 [i. e., 510] pages. Folio, 456x272 mm, contemporary vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, rebacked with vellum; contents toned with scattered foxing. Bookplate and signature dated 1921 of Jan van der Hoeven. Leiden: apud Jansonnios Vander Aa, 1735

Additional Details

first boerhaave edition of writings on acute and chronic diseases by a Greek physician of the 1st century A.D.; second issue, with 1731 title reset. Choulant, Handbuch, page 85; Hoffmann I, 287; Lindeboom 557.