BALNEOLOGY]. De balneis, omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quam quoscunque ceterarum artium probatos scriptores . Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1553. 2 o (308 x 213 mm). Collation: 1 8 2 8 a-z aa-pp 8 qq 4 rr-zz aaa-hhh 8 iii 1 0 kkk-ooo 8 ppp 1 0 qqq 1 0. 511 leaves. Roman type. 5 full-page woodcuts. (Lacks blank qqq10, marginal repairs to last few leaves.) 18th-century vellum, spine ink lettered. Provenance : Antonio Orsetti (early ownership inscription on front free endpaper); two early signatures superimposed on title; Army Medical Library, Washington D.C. (ink stamp on title). FIRST EDITION of this collection on balneology, incorporating the writings of Avicenna, Averros, Avenzohar, Guainerio, Gesner, Savonarola, Petrus de Abano, Maimonides and more than 70 other authorities. The woodcut on leaf pp3 r is an illustration of the use of the baths at Plombires. Signature qqq (leaves 489-497) is an addition, containing a "De balneis compendium, ex Hippocrate et Galeno" by Giovanni Antonio Secchi. Adams D-167; BM/STC Italian p. 363; Brunet I:628; Garrison-Morton 1986; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 214; NLM/Durling 1101; Osler 1902; Wellcome 652; Norman 113.
BALNEOLOGY]. De balneis, omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quam quoscunque ceterarum artium probatos scriptores . Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1553. 2 o (308 x 213 mm). Collation: 1 8 2 8 a-z aa-pp 8 qq 4 rr-zz aaa-hhh 8 iii 1 0 kkk-ooo 8 ppp 1 0 qqq 1 0. 511 leaves. Roman type. 5 full-page woodcuts. (Lacks blank qqq10, marginal repairs to last few leaves.) 18th-century vellum, spine ink lettered. Provenance : Antonio Orsetti (early ownership inscription on front free endpaper); two early signatures superimposed on title; Army Medical Library, Washington D.C. (ink stamp on title). FIRST EDITION of this collection on balneology, incorporating the writings of Avicenna, Averros, Avenzohar, Guainerio, Gesner, Savonarola, Petrus de Abano, Maimonides and more than 70 other authorities. The woodcut on leaf pp3 r is an illustration of the use of the baths at Plombires. Signature qqq (leaves 489-497) is an addition, containing a "De balneis compendium, ex Hippocrate et Galeno" by Giovanni Antonio Secchi. Adams D-167; BM/STC Italian p. 363; Brunet I:628; Garrison-Morton 1986; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 214; NLM/Durling 1101; Osler 1902; Wellcome 652; Norman 113.
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