[Rarebooks] FS: Galenus' 1541 treatise on health w/commentary by L. Fuchs. 1st ed. thus.

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(MEDICINE) Galenus. ...DE SANITATE TUENDA LIBRI SEX, a Thoma Linacro Anglo Latinate Donati... a Leonharto Fuchsio... Studiosorum Gratium... (Tubingen: Ulricum Morhardum. 1541). 8vo. 2 parts in 1. ff.(16),170,(2);158,(12). With all of the blanks, (a8, 2 leaves at the end of the first part, and 3 leaves at the end of the second part). Large woodcut device on the title of the first part, which is repeated on the verso of the final printed leaf of part two. Cont. limp vellum, soiled. Some occasional text soiling.	$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second part, with its own title page is ANNOTATIONES IN LIBROS... GALENI by the great scholar physician Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566) which is first printed here. A scarce and important edition of Galen's treatise on hygiene and the preservation of health. Wellcome #2615. Durling NLM #1929. VD 16 G203.


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