Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PEUCER, CASPAR. Practica seu methodus curandi morbos internos. [14] (of [16]), 695, [33] pages, including colophon leaf and final blank; lacks last preliminary leaf (end of table of contents) * Tractatus de febribus. 149, [3] pages, including final blank. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary leather over wooden boards with indistinct panel stamps on covers, front cover additionally stamped P M G (above) and 1617 (below), brass catches, lacking clasps, worn overall; occasional toning and early underscoring and marginalia, first title heavily soiled, blank upper margin of next leaf excised. Armorial bookplate of Count Andreas von Riaucour. Frankfurt am Main: Nikolaus Hoffmann the Elder for Johann Berner, 1614; 1614

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first editions of treatises on internal medicine and fevers by a follower of Paracelsus. Hirsch IV, 550; neither work in Krivatsy. Bound with: Bruele, Walther. Praxis medicinae theorica et empirica familiarissima. [12], 421, [7] pages. [Leiden]: Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1612. Krivatsy 1857.