Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
PAULUS AEGINETA. Opus divinum. Latin translation by Alban Thorer. [24], 513, [3] pages, including final leaf with printer's device. Folio, 19th-century cloth with worn leather lettering piece, joints starting at top, bottom of spine nicked; some light marginal foxing and dampstaining, tiny wormholes through opening leaves not impairing legibility, title heavily soiled, creased, and mounted. Bound at the end are the first 9 leaves of the 1531 Mainz first edition of Pro conservanda sanitate tuendaque prospera valetudine . . . liber utiliss[imus], attributed to Vital Du Four (see Sarton III, 531), comprising the title, dedicatory letter, index, errata, and text of the Hippocratic Oath. Basel: (Andreas Cratander & Johann Bebel), 1532

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first edition in latin