De miraculis occultis naturae, libri IIII. Item de vita cum animi et corporis incolumitate [...].

Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1574

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8vo: [16]-566-33 pp. (usual browning, some quires more heavily browned).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine (joints and bands def., spine sl. loosening).

Reprint with some additions of "Occulta naturae miracula" printed by Plantin in 1567, itself an enlarged edition of "De occultis naturae miraculis libri II", first issued by Guilielmus Simon in Antwerp in 1559. The Zealand physician Levinus Lemnius (1505-1568) studied at Ghent and Leuven before becoming active in his native city Zierikzee. This book is a compilation of medical and dietetic problems for a wider public. With on pp. 3-5 a letter to Ortelius from Plantin.
Ref. Voet 1514. - Cockx-Indestege & De Nave nr. 61. - Adams L-418. - Pettegree (NB) 18869.