Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BERTUCCIO, NICCOLÒ. Nusquam antea impressum collectorium totius fere medicine. [4], 228 [i. e., 226] leaves. 4to, later vellum, rebacked; scattered foxing and marginal dampstains, some early underscoring and marginalia, title dampstained in gutter with few letters of first word obliterated, repaired narrow horizontal hole in blank lower margin. (Lyon: Jacques Myt for Barthélemy Trot, 1518)

Additional Details



Third edition of a treatise on general medicine, with a chapter on anatomy including a description of the brain. Bertuccio (d. 1347) was an Italian physician and anatomist who studied under Mundinus (see lot 173) and continued the latter's practice of dissecting cadavers in the classroom. Durling 564; Sarton III, 847; Stillwell 313 (1509 original edition).