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GALENUS, CLAUDIUS. Omnia, quae extant. General title within woodcut historiated border of medical vignettes depicting Galen and others; woodcut text illustrations of bandages and orthopedic devices in Septima classis. 12 parts in 3 volumes. Folio, 359x240 mm, contemporary 1/2 blind-tooled pigskin over liturgical manuscript vellum dyed green, shelf number stamped in black on spines, Volume 1 spine chipped at top, front joint partly cracked, Volume 2 front cover detached; attractive set internally, with only scattered early underscoring and marginalia, light marginal dampstaining on last few leaves in Volume 2, occasional toning in Volume 3 and minor dampstaining along top and fore edges of index, most free endpapers lacking; cloth folding cases. Signatures of Jonas Pesserl of Iglau, Moravia, dated Wittenberg 1602; bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries with release stamps, Crerar Library perforated stamp on titles and some text leaves. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1561-62
Third Froben edition of the collected Galenic writings in Latin, edited by Conrad Gesner, reprinting the text of the 1556 third Giunta edition; with a bibliography by Gesner of earlier editions of Galen, and translations revised by Andreas Vesalius of 3 tracts in Prima classis dealing with the nervous and circulatory systems and anatomical procedures. Choulant, Handbuch, page 114; Cushing, pages 63-67; Durling 1757; Hoffmann II, 129; Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography [XXIX].
I--Cl. Galeni . . . Omnia, quae extant [i. e., preface and prolegomena by Gesner]. [40] leaves. bound with: Prima classis. 686, [2] pages. and: Secunda classis. 222, [2] pages. and: Tertia classis. 387, [1] pages.
