FRACASTORO GIROLAMO Carminum editio II 2 vols 1739

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FRACASTORO, GIROLAMO. Carminum editio II. Engraved portrait of Fracastoro. xl, 204, 171, [4]; xii, 139, [1], 282, [2] pages. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary 1/4 mottled sheep with morocco lettering pieces, paste-paper boards Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1739

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Second Comino edition, revised and enlarged, of Fracastoro's collected poetry, including Syphilis sive morbus gallicus, "the most famous of all medical poems" (Garrison-Morton). Pages 148-62 of Volume 1 contain a bibliography of editions and translations of his works. Baumgartner & Fulton 21; cf. Garrison-Morton 2364.