Live auction - Lot 1233
[Health care - Tobacco]
Schola Salernitana sive De conservanda valetudine praecepta metrica, auctore Iohanne de Mediolano, hactenus ignoto. Cum luculenta & succincta Arnoldi Villanovani in singula capita exegesi. Ex recensione Zachariae Sylvii, medici Roterodamensis, cum eiusdem praefatione.
Regensburg, J.Z. Seidel, 1722
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
12mo: [32]-506 [= 508]-[9-3 bl.] pp. (toned).
Contemp. half leather, marbled paper on covers, spine with raised bands (sl. rubbed). Good copy.
Rare Regensburg ed. (1st 1711) of a collection of medieval texts on health care compiled by the Rotterdam physician Zacharias Sylvius (1608-1664), 1st publ. 1649. At the end Latin verses on tobacco by P. Scriverius, C. Barlaeus, H. Grotius and J. Owen.
Ref. Not in VD18, Blake, Wellcome (other ed.).