Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 14,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SERVETUS, MICHAEL. Syruporum universa ratio. 8vo, 163x108 mm, modern binding of vellum-backed boards covered with 16th-century printed liturgical leaves; light foxing, small stain in lower margin of title, gathering h incorrectly folded with leaves out of order, dampstaining in upper outer corners at end. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1537

Additional Details

first edition of a treatise on the Galenic theory of digestion and the curative use of syrups, rejecting Arab doctrines on the subject. Durling 4193; Fulton & Stanton 15; not in Schreiber (Colines).