[Rarebooks] For Sale: 1606 medical folio

[Norman Kane]

We Can Offer:

MERCURIALE, GIROLAMO.   PRAELECTIONES PATAVINAE DE
COGNOSCENDIS ET CURANDIS HUMANI CORPORIS AFFECTIBUS . . .
IN HACQUE POSTREMA EDITIONE SUMMA CUM DILIGENTIA EXPERGATAE
. . .   Venice: Junta, 1606.     Later quarter Oasis Niger 
goat,  linen sides, last
20 pages in facsimile.  Approx. 13 X 9 inches, [32], 644pp. (First 
published in
1601 as "Medicina Practica."  Nat. Libr. of Medicine 17C. Cat. 7800.  There
are also copies at the Phila. College of Physicians & the U. of Texas. A scarce
edition of a work that carried much weight in its day; Mercuriale has 
3 citations in Garrison/Morton.)  $300.00


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