Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 910
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ESTIENNE, HENRI. Dictionarium medicum. 608, [28] pages. 8vo, 172x110 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard dated 1566 on front cover, partial crack in rear joint, cover corners worn; marginal foxing and dampstaining, early inscription in lower margin of title, blank lower outer corner of A2 restored, free endpapers lacking. 19th-century bookplate of Albert Forbiger; Rush Medical College Library stamp on title and in text. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne for Ulrich Fugger, 1564

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first edition of a lexicon based on the writings of the major Greek medical authors. "This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exerted considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology"--Garrison-Morton 6791. Choulant, Handbuch, page 424, also 74 and 106; GLN-2249; Schreiber 151.