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CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De re medica libri octo. Edited by Jean Ruelle. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide. [20], 131, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, early 19th-century calf with morocco lettering piece, extremities worn, joints cracked, cords intact; ink accession number on title verso, contemporary marginalia throughout. Paris: apud Christianum Wechel, 1529
Ninth edition. This copy contains the complete text of Celsus, as well as the Hippocratic oath and an encomium of medicine by Philipp Melanchthon, but lacks the second part containing the first appearance of the 1st-century A. D. collection of prescriptions of Scribonius Largus and writings ascribed to the 4th-century A.D. Roman physician Vindicianus. Adams C1243; Durling 910-11.
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