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Auction archive: Lot number 119

CASTAGNO, Giovanni Paolo (fl. second half 16th century). Reggimento contra peste, per conservare i sani, & curare gli infermi . Ferrara: Francesco di Rossi Valentiano, 1572.

Auction 06.06.2001
6 Jun 2001
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,401 - US$2,101
Price realised:
£3,290
ca. US$4,610
Auction archive: Lot number 119

CASTAGNO, Giovanni Paolo (fl. second half 16th century). Reggimento contra peste, per conservare i sani, & curare gli infermi . Ferrara: Francesco di Rossi Valentiano, 1572.

Auction 06.06.2001
6 Jun 2001
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,401 - US$2,101
Price realised:
£3,290
ca. US$4,610
Beschreibung:

CASTAGNO, Giovanni Paolo (fl. second half 16th century). Reggimento contra peste, per conservare i sani, & curare gli infermi . Ferrara: Francesco di Rossi Valentiano, 1572. 4° (201 x 150mm). 4ll., woodcut initials and ornaments, full-page woodcut of St. Roche on final verso. Roman and italic type. (Small marginal repair on title.) Uncut. [ Bound with :] Manuscript concerning the plague, 2ll., written in a cursive hand in brown ink, [?Ferrara: late 16th-early 17th century]. Early 20th-century brown roan-backed marbled boards. Provenance : C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate and label, sale Sotheby's 17 June 1946, lot 71). A VERY RARE book on the prevention and cure of the plague. Castagno begins by outlining how to avoid the disease, through diet, exercise, hygiene and fumigation, and then suggests various herbal and other remedies. The manuscript which is bound with it gives additional advice on the application of 'compositi' and ointments and seems to advocate in particular vomitting and other purgative methods. EDIT 1874; Durling and Wellcome list later editions only, by Pietro, not Giovanni Paolo, Castagno.

Auction archive: Lot number 119
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

CASTAGNO, Giovanni Paolo (fl. second half 16th century). Reggimento contra peste, per conservare i sani, & curare gli infermi . Ferrara: Francesco di Rossi Valentiano, 1572. 4° (201 x 150mm). 4ll., woodcut initials and ornaments, full-page woodcut of St. Roche on final verso. Roman and italic type. (Small marginal repair on title.) Uncut. [ Bound with :] Manuscript concerning the plague, 2ll., written in a cursive hand in brown ink, [?Ferrara: late 16th-early 17th century]. Early 20th-century brown roan-backed marbled boards. Provenance : C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate and label, sale Sotheby's 17 June 1946, lot 71). A VERY RARE book on the prevention and cure of the plague. Castagno begins by outlining how to avoid the disease, through diet, exercise, hygiene and fumigation, and then suggests various herbal and other remedies. The manuscript which is bound with it gives additional advice on the application of 'compositi' and ointments and seems to advocate in particular vomitting and other purgative methods. EDIT 1874; Durling and Wellcome list later editions only, by Pietro, not Giovanni Paolo, Castagno.

Auction archive: Lot number 119
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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