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NICANDER. Theriaca. Eiusdem Alexipharmaca. Greek text and commentary. [4], 103, [1] pages, with title and following preliminary leaf transposed. 4to, 199x145 mm, late 18th-century tree sheep, spine and cover edges heavily worn; early underscoring and marginalia throughout, scattered minor stains, blank lower outer corner of title excised and restored. Stamp of the Brooklyn Academy of Medicine on title (sold at Swann, 24 January 1980, lot 1477). Cologne: Johann Soter, 1530
Two 2nd-century B.C. works in verse on animal, plant, and mineral poisons, their treatment and antidotes, first published in the 1499 Aldine edition of Dioscorides and separately in 1523. Garrison-Morton 2069 (original edition); Durling 3340; Hoffmann II, 617 (this edition).
