Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SYLVIUS, JACOBUS [i. e., DUBOIS, JACQUES]. Opera medica. Edited by Renatus Moraeus. [56], 204, [2], 12, 205-892, [31] pages, including full-page engraved portrait of the author. Folio, 17th-century vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, quite worn, portion of vellum excised from periphery of front cover; contents lightly toned and dampwrinkled. Geneva: Jacques Chouët, 1634

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First published in 1630. 'Includes the Latin texts of Hippocrates' De natura hominis with the commentary of Galen, Galen's De ossibus ad tirones, and the younger Mesuë's De re medica libri tres (i. e., the principal pharmaceutical works attributed to Mesuë) edited with notes by Dubois'--Krivatsy 3420.