Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410
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Sale 2410 - Lot 137

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CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De re medica libri octo [with SCRIBONIUS LARGUS, De compositione medicamentorum]. Edited by Jean Ruelle. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide. [20], 131, [1]; 31, [15] leaves, including blank Y6 and final leaf with printer's device on verso; preliminaries and text of Scribonius Largus transposed. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 252x174 mm, old blind-stamped vellum boards, rebacked, endpapers renewed; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end with paper corrosion along top edge of opening leaves, stain and inscription on general title, fore edge frayed and restored, C1 shaved along fore and bottom edges, repaired clean tears in blank lower inner corners of L3.4, portion of blank lower margin torn off Q6, scattered cropped marginalia, small wormtrails through text of Scribonius Largus generally not impairing legibility. Paris: (Simon Du Bois for) Chrétien Wechel, 1529
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Ninth edition of the treatise on Greco-Roman medicine by Celsus, which was first printed in 1478; and first edition of the pharmacological compilation by Scribonius Largus, which contains the earliest accounts of the preparation of opium and the application of electrotherapy (using the shock of a torpedo fish to cure headache). Both works were originally composed in the 1st century A.D. Adams C1243; Choulant, Handbuch, pages 169 Durling 910-11; Garrison-Morton 1785 and 1984.1.