[Rarebooks] FS: Rivere's expanded medical work (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. Nicely bound in 20th century  brown calf over marbled boards. Old faded waterstain to the final 50 pages.    $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
Edited  and much expanded after Riviere's death by one of his students, Bernardino Christini. The section on astrological medicine is noteworthy. Riviere (d. 1655) was an important French professor of medicine. NLM, 17th Century #2901 (under the editor, B. Cristini). Wellcome Med. Cat. IV, p. 535 (the 1676 ed.). See Garrison & Morton #2727 (Riviereís OPERA MEDICA UNIVERSA).

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