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ESTIENNE, HENRI. Dictionarium medicum. 608, [28] pages. 8vo, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard with allegorical panel stamps of Justice and Lucretia on front and rear covers, respectively, front cover additionally stamped H*S*N at top and 1566 at bottom, spine painted light gray with title and shelfmark inked in red, covers slightly warped; mostly marginal foxing, old inscriptions and stamps on title. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne for Ulrich Fugger, 1564
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). Also included are Hippocratic glossaries by Erotian (first published here) and Galen, and notes by Estienne and Conrad Gesner. Garrison-Morton 6791; Choulant, Handbuch, page 424, also 74 and 106; Hoffmann II, 35 (for Erotian); Schreiber 151.
