De tuenda bona valetudine libellus [...] commentarijs doctissimis a Ioanne Placotomo [...] illustratus.

Frankfurt (M.), Heirs of Chr. Egenolff, 1571

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Description du lot

8vo: [4]-185-[3] ff. (dampstained, margins of 1st and last ff. sl. frayed).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (recased with new endpapers, sl. loosening, upper fore-edge margin def.). Good copy.

Enl. ed. (1st 1551) of a humanist treatise on food and health care, with much attention to beer and other drinks (and drunkenness). On ff. 138r-145v "edicinae encomium ex D. Erasmo [...] versu redditum", a verse adaptation of Erasmus’ praise of medicine. On ff. 145v-148v verses on famous doctors. On ff. 150r-158v the medieval "Hortulus" of Walahfrid Strabo (St Gallen, 840). Title printed in red and black. 25 woodcuts (i.a. beer mugs, poop etc.).
Ref. VD16 E-1476. - Erasmus Online 1847. - Not in Adams 1847. - Durling 2293. - Cp. Wellcome I:2044-2045 (other ed.).

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