Live auction - Lot 868

[Medicine - Health care]

PICTORIUS, Georgius

Tuendae sanitatis ratio, VII. dialogis, per sex rerum [ut medici uocant] non naturaliu[m] ordine[m], quae sunt, aer: cibus, potus: motus, quies: somnus, uigilia: repletio, inanitio: animi passiones [...] conscripta [...]].

Basel, H. Petri, 1554

€ 200 / 300

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8vo: [16]-287-[33] pp. (toned, occ. soiling or staining).

18th-c. sheep, gilt arms on covers, gilt gauffered edges (worn, loosening, gilding soiled). Apart from the binding a good copy.

Early edition (1st 1549) of a treatise on the preservation of health by the Alsatian physician Georg Maler (1500-1569). With chapters on food, wine, sex etc. Woodcut mark at the end. Printed in italics. Ref. VD-16 P-2722. - Durling 3634. - STC German (BL) 696. - Not in Adams, Wellcome. Prov. "Mart: ab Haccuria" (old name on title). - Probably an 18th-c. Liège prize book (gilt arms on covers).

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Lot 868

Tuendae sanitatis ratio, VII. dialogis, per sex rerum [ut medici uocant] non naturaliu[m] ordine[m], quae sunt, aer: cibus, potus: motus, quies: somnus, uigilia: repletio, inanitio: animi passiones [...] conscripta [...]].

PICTORIUS, Georgius

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