[Rarebooks] FS: Riviere's "Arcana" (including astrological medicine). Venice: 1696

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(MEDICINE) Riviere, Lazare. ARCANA... Cum Institutionibus Medicis, & Regulis, 
Consultationibus, & Observationibus, P.F. Bernardini Christini a Juvellina... 
de Febre Pestilentiali... et Astrologicus ad Medicinam Pertinens. Venice: 
Joannes La Nou. 1696. 4to. (16),476pp. Bound in 20th century   brown calf over 
marbled boards. Old faded waterstain to the final 50 pages.     $375.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
Edited after Riviere’s death by one of his students, Bernardinus Christinus a 
Juvellina. The section on astrological medicine is noteworthy. NLM, 17th 
Century #2901 (under the editor, B. Cristini). Wellcome Med. Cat. IV, p. 535 (the 
1676 ed.). See Garrison & Morton #2727 (Riviere’s OPERA MEDICA UNIVERSA).

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