AVICENNA Avicennae Arabum medicorum principis 1608

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AVICENNA. Avicennae Arabum medicorum principis. 6 woodcut illustrations depicting treatment of vertebral dislocation. [52], 982, [2]; [12], 437, [3]; [304] pages, including additional general title within engraved historiated border, and 3 final blanks. 3 volumes in one. Folio, 350x245 mm, contemporary vellum with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, joints cracked, cords intact; vertical crease in additional title. Later 19th-century bookplate of the Paris bookseller Jacques Lechevalier; signature of the German pharmacologist Louis Lewin (1850-1929) dated 1895. Venice: apud Juntas, 1608

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Handsomely printed edition of the Canon of Avicenna in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona, edited by Andrea Alpago with notes by Giovanni Costeo and Giovanni Paolo Mongiò. Choulant, Handbuch, page 366; Krivatsy 496.