[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce English ed. of the Salerno med. school's "Regimen Sanitatis." London: 1634

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(MEDICINE) Salerno [Schola Salernitana]. REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI; OR, THE SCHOOLE OF SALERNES REGIMENT OF HEALTH... For the Guide and Government of Man's Life... Reviewed, Corrected, and Inlarged... Whereunto Is Annexed, a Necessary Discourse of All Sorts of Fish... Appertayning to the Health of Man. London: B. Alsop and T. Fawcet. 1634. 4to. (8),200(i.e. 218),(14)pp. Index. With the rare leaf, A1, which contains a capital "A" within a type frame, otherwise blank, and the final leaf, a blank. Title within a woodcut border. Title page with a small oval blind stamp of Mark Pattison Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford (circa 1850). Some occasional light soiling, but overall a very nice, complete, copy. Bound in full tan morocco, simply gilt ruled. Binding is signed, "Catherine Stanescu," circa 1970.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Scarce English edition of the Medical School of Salerno's "Regimen Santitatis" the great medieval guide to health and proper living. This edition has the added essay on eating fish for our health, leading off with a discussion of the importance of salmon in our diet. A large part of the text relates to food and wine (see Simon's VINARIA, 188 and GASRONOMICA 121). The text is attributed to Joannes de Mediolano. The English translation is by Philemon Holland. STC 21604. See Garrison & Morton #49-51.


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