GALENUS CLAUDIUS Librorum pars prima[ quinta] 1525

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GALENUS, CLAUDIUS. Librorum pars prima[-quinta]. Greek text, edited by Andrea Torresani and Giovanni Battista Opizzoni. [4], 24, 180 [i. e,. 181], [1], 108; [4], 184, 160 [i. e,. 106]; [4], 106, 155, [1]; [4], 113, [1], 74, 3 [i. e., 6, 55 [i. e., 57], [1]; [4], 327 [i. e., 346], [6] leaves, including the integral blanks, with gathering 3A bound between 3[tau]8 and 3[upsilon]1 in Volume 5. 5 volumes. Folio, 314-318x218-224 mm, 20th-century brown morocco blind-tooled in period style by Bernard Middleton; occasional light marginal dampstaining, few early marginalia in Greek, Volume 2 with stain at top of a2, repair in blank gutter of n1, and wormhole through last several leaves slightly affecting text. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April-August 1525)

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first edition in the original greek of the complete works of galen. 'This is the most substantial Greek edition published by Aldus's father- and brothers-in-law in the fourteen years between Aldus's death and the closing of the Press in 1529. In its huge physical scope it rivals the Aristotle as a major piece of Greek printing and is in fact the lengthiest Aldine Greek work published. These volumes made available Galen's vast corpus of medical writings in the original Greek'--Fletcher, In Praise of Aldus Manutius, page 64. Renouard, page 101(3); New UCLA 231, 232, 233, 235, 236; Durling 1748; Grolier/Norman 5B; Printing and the Mind of Man 33.