Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 106

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HEISTER, ELIAS FRIEDRICH. Apologia pro medicis qua eorum depellitur cavillatio, qui medicinam in atheismum aliosque in theologia errores abducere perhibent. [18], 184, [2] pages. 8vo, contemporary Italian vellum; occasional light toning or foxing. Amsterdam: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1736

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first edition of a defense of Galen, Hippocrates, Girolamo Cardano, Sir Thomas Browne, Giulio Cesare Vanini, and other medical authors accused of atheism. Heister (1715-40) was the son of Lorenz Heister. Keynes (Browne) 254.