Live auction - Lot 846
[Medicine]
Praefatio in librum de homonymis hyles iatricae, eiusdem De Plinio iudicium.
Dijon, P. Chavance, 1668
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Sm. folio (4to-size) : [8]-110-[2] pp. (title sl. soiled, some toning).
Old marbl. wr. (spine def.). Nice large paper copy.
Very rare Dijon ed. of 2 essays by the French scholar and Leiden professor Claude Saumaise (1588-1653): a philological essay on Greek plant names and on their medicinal use, and a critical essay on Pliny the Elder (1st publ. 1629). Woodcut ornament on title. Title in red & black. Mod. bookpl. Ref. BnF (1). - Cp. Goldsmith (BL) S-320 (re-issue). - Not in Bibl. Med. Neerl., Krivatsy, Wellcome.