Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 406

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MANFREDI, GIROLAMO DI. Opera nuova intitulata il Perche utilissima ad inte[n]dere le cagioni de molte cose: & maximamente alla conservatione della sanità: et phisionomia. Et virtù delle herbe. Novamente stampata.<> Printer's large woodcut device on title. [15] (of [16]), 228 leaves; lacks blank B8. Small 8vo, 19th-century morocco blocked in blind, spine slightly faded, front joint cracked, rear joint rubbed; repaired tear in lower margin of title and next leaf, B1 bound verso to recto, wormhole in blank outer margins towards end. (Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, 18 September), 1536 (colophon dated 1526)

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Work based on the Problemata of Aristotle, first published in 1474. "It contains chapters on diet, sex, evacuation, leprosy, the effects of wine, castrati, and other medical observations, many of which are quite curious"--Heirs of Hippocrates 129 (1514 edition).<