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HIPPOCRATES. Libri omnes. Greek text, edited by Janus Cornarius. [8], 562, [2] pages, including last leaf with printer's device. bound with: PAULUS AEGINETA. Libri septem. Greek text, edited by Hieronymus Gemusaeus. [12], 305, [7] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 309x203 mm, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, blind-tooled panel design formed by historiated and ornamental rolls on covers, somewhat soiled with imperfection in second spine compartment from top; contents generally quite clean apart from occasional toning and scattered early underscoring and marginalia, small stain in outer margin of penultimate leaf in first work and title in second, probably caused by fore-edge tab missing from leaf in between. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1538; (Andreas Cratander, August), 1538
handsome sammelband containing the second collected editions in the original Greek of the mostly late 5th-/early 4th-century B.C. works forming the Hippocratic corpus, and the influential 7th-century Byzantine medical encyclopedia of Paul of Aegina. The first collected editions in Greek were printed by the Aldine press in 1526 and 1528. Durling 2317, 3548; Choulant, Handbuch, pages 22 and 142; Hoffmann II, 271, and III, 44.
