Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
AURELIANUS, CAELIUS. De acutis morbis libri III. De diuturnis libri V. [16], 554, [22] pages, including errata leaf and blanks *8 and N8. 8vo, 160x108 mm, contemporary limp vellum, worn, spine darkened, ties lacking; contents browned, hole through title and next leaf affecting a few letters, last 4 preliminaries trimmed in blank outer margin, rust hole through last few leaves causing slight text loss, front free endpaper lacking. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1566

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first combined edition of 2 texts on acute and chronic diseases from a now-lost work by the 2nd-century Greek physician Soranos, translated into Latin by the 5th-century Roman physician Caelius Aurelianus and traditionally published under the latter's name. Choulant, Handbuch, page 208; Sarton I, 392.