Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GALENUS, CLAUDIUS. Galeni librorum prima classis. Title within woodcut historiated border of medical vignettes depicting Galen and others. 341, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 357x248 mm, modern vellum boards, covers slightly warped; intermittent marginal dampstaining worsening toward end, restoration on last several leaves not affecting text. Bookplate of Samuel X. Radbill. Venice: apud Juntas, 1576

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From the 11-volume fifth Giunta edition of the collected Galenic writings in Latin. This volume includes 3 tracts dealing with the nervous and circulatory systems and anatomical procedures in translations revised by Andreas Vesalius. Choulant, Handbuch, page 114; Cushing, pages 63-67; Hoffmann II, 130; Durling 1760.