Aphorismi Hippocratis. Ex recognitione A. Vorstii.

Leiden, Elzevier [by B. & Abr. Elzevier], 1628

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24mo: engr. title-[4 bl.-2]-231 pp. (marg. dampstaining passim).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine.

First edition of this pocket size edition of the famous medical aphorisms edited by Adolphus Van Voorst (1597-1663), Dutch physicist and botanist. With text in Greek and Latin. Second issue with the text on the verso of the Preface in 21 lines. Ill. with an engr. title.
Ref. Willems 297. - Rahir 266. - Berghman 573. - Hoffmann II:423. - Cp. Krivatsy 5651 (1st issue). - Not in Wellcome (other ed.).
Prov. Ms. entry dated 1667 from a Doctor in medicine of the faculty of Leuven. - Swijsen (ms. entry). - H. Huygens (ms. entry dated 1740).