Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 3,910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PETRUS DE ABANO. De venenis. [24] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 199x150 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 vellum; bookplate. Leipzig: Jacobus Thanner, 14 July 1498

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Originally published in 1472, the first printed book on toxicology, combining a discussion of poisons and their antidotes with elements of folk medicine and astrology. Garrison-Morton 2070; Sarton III, 442 and 445; Hain 14; Klebs 774.9; Goff P444 (locating only the AAS copy); ISTC ip00444000 (locating 6 copies in Europe and noting that the AAS copy cited by Goff was not found as of 1990).