Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GABUCCINI, GIROLAMO. De comitiali morbo libri III. [4], 99, [17] pages, including final leaf with Aldine device. 4to, later gilt-tooled vellum; front hinge wormed, minor spotting on title. Venice: Aldine press, 1561

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first edition of an important early work on epilepsy. Gabuccini "stressed the natural character of epilepsy against all popular and theological assumptions"--Temkin, The Falling Sickness (1971), page 144. Durling 1740; Renouard, page 182.