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GALENUS, CLAUDIUS. Opera. Titles within woodcut historiated border of medical vignettes depicting Galen and others; woodcut text illustrations of bandaging and orthopedic devices in Septima classis. 13 parts in 5 volumes. Folio, 342x244 mm, modern 1/2 leather with 17th-century blind-stamped vellum covers and modern vellum spines laid down, modern silk ties and endpapers; occasional light marginal dampstaining in second volume with partly repaired wormholes through lower margin of opening leaves not impairing legibility, light dampstaining along top edges at end of Quinta classis and in upper inner corners in fourth volume, blank lower outer corner of last 2 leaves in index volume restored, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Venice: apud Juntas, 1625
Recension of the collected Galenic writings in Latin originally published by the Giunta press in 1541-42, including revised translations 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; Hoffmann II, 130; Krivatsy 4495.
I--Galeni Opera [i. e., Vita & Synopsis]. [104] leaves. bound with: Operum quorundam . . . fragmenta. 44 leaves. and: Isagogici libri. 74 leaves. and: Prima classis. 341, [1] leaves, including final blank. II--Secunda classis. [2], 109, [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with: Tertia classis. 266 leaves. III--Quarta classis. 122, cxiij-cxxxiiij, 123-220 leaves. bound with: Quinta classis. 277, [1] leaves, including final blank. IV--Sexta classis. 21, [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with: Septima classis. 322 leaves. and: Spurii Galeno ascripti libri. 126 leaves. and: Extra ordinem classium libri. 79, [1] leaves, including final blank. V--Brasavola, Antonio Musa. Index refertissimus in omnes Galeni libros. [4], 547, [1] leaves, including register/colophon leaf.
