Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BERNARDUS DE GORDONIO. Opus lilium medicinae inscriptum. 920, [16] pages, including final blank used as rear pastedown. 8vo, 168x110 mm, contemporary calf with gilt oval arabesque centerpiece on covers and small ornamental tool in spine compartments, later paper lettering piece, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, cords intact; occasional foxing or browning and marginal dampstaining. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1559

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Popular medieval textbook of practical medicine composed at the beginning of the 14th century and first printed in 1480. Sarton III, 873.