Live auction - Lot 293
[Medicine - Facsimile - Portraits]
Icones veterum aliquot, ac recentium medicorum, philosophorumque elogiolis suis editae.
Antwerp [etc.], Maatschappij der Antwerpsche Bibliophilen, 1901
Hammer price: €
45
€ 60 / 80
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Lot description
Folio: VII-[1 bl., 1, 1 bl., 1, 1 bl.] pp. + 67 full-page portraits.
Mod. cloth, flat spine with morocco label, original printed wrappers bound with. Very good copy (a few minor spots).
Facsimile of the Plantin edition of 1574 (Plantin Press 2175), introduced by Max Rooses. With 67 portraits by Peter van der Borcht, lithographically reproduced. These represent physicians and philosophers from Antiquity and modern times, e.g. Fernelius, Vesalius, Gesnerus, Fuxius, Matthiolus, Biesius, Cardanus, Scaliger, Paracelsus.