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GABUCCINI, GIROLAMO. De comitiali morbo libri III. [4], 99, [17] pages, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 4to, 191x136 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 sprinkled calf with morocco lettering piece; title soiled with short clean tear repaired on verso, light soiling on last page. Armorial bookplates of Drs. Cornelis Hendrik à Roy (1750-1833) and John Deakin Heaton (1817-80). Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1561
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. Renouard, page 182(3); New UCLA 645; Durling 1740.
