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DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS, attributed to. Euporista . . . hoc est, De curationibus morborum per medicamenta paratu facilia, libri II. Greek text with Latin translation by Johannes Moibanus and Conrad Gesner. [64], 903, [23] pages. 8vo, 175x103 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard with panel stamps of the arms of Saxony on front cover and double image of Samson on rear cover, front additionally stamped with monogram DB and dated 1566; moderate toning and foxing, dampstain in outer margin of index leaves. 19th-century stamp of Dr. Hermann De Koehler on title verso. Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 1565
first edition of a collection of simple and compound medicines falsely ascribed to Dioscorides. Choulant, Handbuch, page 79; Durling 1167; Hoffmann I, 601.
