Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius (c. 25 BCE-c. 50 CE)
De Re Medica Libri Octo.

Paris: [Simon Du Bois for] Chrétien Wechel, 1529.

Ninth edition, small folio, edited by Jean Ruelle, title printed within full-page woodcut architectural border incorporating a vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide by snake; also including Scribonius Largus's (c. 1-c. 50 CE) De Compositionibus Medicamentorum Liber Unus, and several short medical works by other Latin writers; extensive notes to first title page, scattered marginal, some water staining, bound in full tight-backed parchment over boards, first and last few leaf reinforced on verso, final leaf backed with paper, when held to the light, extensive manuscript notes are visible; interstitial blank and leaves blank but for printer's devices present, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

Adams C-1243; Choulant, Handbuch, pages 169 Durling 910-11; Garrison-Morton 1785 and 1984.1.