[Rarebooks] FS: Facsimile of a 1533 Illustrated Edition of a Medical Text by an 11th Century Arab Physician

[Charles Agvent]

HERR, Michael (translator). SCHACHTAFELEN DER GESUNDHEYT [Facsimile of 
the 1533 Edition]. (Darmstadt): (Josef Gotthard Blaschke), (1965). 
Facsimile Edition. Folio (9" x 13") bound in leather. Facsimile edition 
of the scarce 1533 German translation of this practical handbook of 
preventative medicine compiled by the Arab physician Ibn Butlan in the 
eleventh century. Illustrated with many woodcuts by Hans Weiditz the 
Younger. Most of the book concerns food with much general dietetic 
information on food and drink as well as sections on exercise and rest, 
air, sleeping and waking, repletion and excretion, and emotional 
well-being. Fine. (#017973) $150.00

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