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ACTUARIUS, JOANNES ZACHARIAS. Libri VII de urinis. Latin translation by Ambrogio Leone, edited by Jacques Goupyl. [16], 304 leaves. 8vo, 158x106 mm, early 19th-century boards with leather lettering piece, worn overall, spine darkened, stain on front cover; light soiling on title, underscoring on a few leaves, dampstain in outer margin of H1 and in lower outer corners toward end. Paris: Jacques Gazeau, 1548
Late Byzantine work on uroscopy, "the most elaborate Greek treatise on the subject" (Sarton), in the Latin translation first published in 1519. This edition also reprints the pseudo-Aristotelian De coloribus in the Latin version by Celio Calcagnini, and the dialogue on color terms and qualities by Antonio Telesio. Garrison-Morton 2666 (1529 edition); Durling 2578 (this edition); Sarton III, 890-91.
