CELSUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS De medicina 1493 LEONICENO NICC

Sale 1997 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 23,000

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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

FROM THE PILLONE LIBRARY WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De medicina. lx, [2] leaves, including initial blank. Roman type. Folio, 298x210 mm, contemporary Italian red morocco with blind-tooled panel design on covers formed by repeated impressions of small square petalwork tool, lacking ties, with early manuscript vellum leaves as pastedowns; heavy dampstaining throughout this work and the one below with traces of mold. Bookplates of Thomas Brooke, Pierre Berès, and Crawford W. Adams, M.D. (sale, 5 May 1982, lot 38). Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 8 July 1493

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Third edition. Dating from the 1st century A.D. and first published in 1478, "our fundamental source for the history of Alexandrian medicine; the greatest medical work of antiquity after those of Hippocrates and Galen" (Sarton). GW 6458; BMC V, 417; Goff C366; Klebs 260.3; Norman 426; Garrison-Morton 20; Sarton I, 240.