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EARLY EDITION OF A CLASSIC IN MEDICINE.
CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50.
De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius and Franciscus Saxettus,Venice: Joannes Rubeus, 1493.

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EARLY EDITION OF A CLASSIC IN MEDICINE.

CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50. De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius and Franciscus Saxettus,Venice: Joannes Rubeus, 1493.
Folio (295 x 200 mm). 61 (of 62 leaves, lacking initial blank), 60 lines and headline, Roman letter, initial spaces, most with printed guide letters. 19th century vellum, morocco lettering piece on spine, lettered in gilt. Light soiling and rubbing to covers, old dealer's description laid down to front free endpaper, very slight worming to last 10 leaves, a few ink notations.
Provenance: Henry Drury, Esq. (bookplate to front paste-down).

Third edition of one of the earliest medical texts in print. "The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about A.D. 30, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine ... The manuscript of De Medicina was lost during the Middle Ages and re-discovered in Milan in 1443" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 20, for the first edition of 1478). BMC V 417; Bod-Inc C-162; Goff C-366; GW 6458; Hain HC *4837; Klebs 260.3; Norman 426; Osler 289; Pellechet 3466; Proctor 5134; Rhodes 533; Sheppard 4123; Waller 46; Wellcome 1393.

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