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GUARINONI, HIPPOLYT. Die Grewel der Verwüstung menschlichen Geschlechts. Title in red and black with allegorical woodcut; full-page engraved portrait of the author by Raphael Sadeler after Hieronymus van Kessel on (b)4r. [72], 1330, [2] pages. Folio, 316x198 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and one clasp (of 2), panel stamps of St. Vitus, patron saint of the Bavarian Benedictine Abbey of Theres, on front cover and Crucifixion on rear cover; contents toned, marginal dampstaining through most of volume, most noticeable toward end. Theres Abbey ownership inscription and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title. Ingolstadt: Andreas Angermayr, 1610
first edition of a huge treatise on the maintenance of spiritual and physical health, with profuse digressions on contemporary social conditions and miscellaneous topics. The book is divided into sections on God, human temperament, air and ventilation, nutrition, bodily processes and needs, exercise, and sleep. The exercise portion includes the description of a distant precursor of baseball on pages 1210-11. Guarinoni (1571-1654) was a Tyrolean town physician now seen as an early exponent of public health medicine. Krivatsy 5062.
