Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 308

Price Realized: $ 2,000
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA. Opera Omnia. [6] leaves, 2072 columns, [22] leaves. Folio, 334x213 mm, contemporary vellum boards, lacking ties; occasional light marginal toning or foxing, few gatherings browned, horizontal strip excised from blank outer margin of title. Rush Medical College Library bookplate on front pastedown, their stamp and accession number on title. Basel: Conrad Waldkirch, 1585

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Seventh collected edition of the writings of the Catalan physician and polymath (d. 1311), "one of the most extraordinary personalities of mediaeval times" (Sarton). Durling 310; Palau 365385; Sarton II, 893-900.