[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 16th cent. medical text on health & exercise

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(MEDICINE) Niger, Antoninus. CONSILIUM DE TUENDA VALENTUDINE. Leipsig: In 
Officina Haeredum Valentini Papae. 1558. 8vo. ff.(47). Lacks the final blank 
leaf. Early vellum.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A scarce medical text on health and exercise. The first edition is 1554. Our 
edition is the first to add 4 leaves of Latin and Greek epitaphs by Joachim 
Camerarius the elder. Also included is a 2-page letter of Pliny the younger “De 
Diligentia Conservandae Sanitatis.” NLM (16th century) #3358. Wellcome I #4547 
(only the Wittenberg, 1573 edition).

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