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CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS; and SERENUS SAMMONICUS, QUINTUS. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelii Celsi medicinae libri VIII . . . Quinti Sereni liber de medicina . . . accedit index in Celsum, et Serenum. [8], 164. 4to, 215x129 mm, modern 1/2 vellum; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered cropped early marginalia, title soiled, with washed signature of the D[uke] of Grafton. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, March 1528)
first aldine edition of a medical compilation written in the 1st-century A.D. and first printed in 1478, the oldest work of its kind in the West after the Hippocratic corpus, here published with the poem on medical remedies by Serenus Sammonicus (d. 212). Renouard, page 105(1); New UCLA 250; Choulant, Handbuch, page 168; Durling 908; Norman 428.
