Medicina Aegyptiorum (...). Liber de balsamo, et rhapontico [and] BONTIUS, Jacobus- Medicina Indorum. Editio nova.

2 works in 1 vol., 4to : [24]-325-[45], 73/258-[2] pp. (minor browning and spotting).

Cont. vellum. Good copy.

2nd Leiden ed. of a rare work on embalming in Egypt by the Italian physician Alpino (1553-1617). He went to Egypt in 1580 & remained there for 3 years. On his return he practised in Genua and in 1593 he became prof. of botany at Padua. The work also describes medical preparations and the pharmaceutical use of the "balsamo" and the "rhapondico". It is followed by a treatise on Indian medicine and the use of pharmaceutical plants by J. Bontius (1592-1631). Ill. with 8 engr. plates. Title in red & black. Ref. Blake 12. - Wellcome II 36. - BMN I 75. - STCN (i.a. 1 BL). - Young & Ferguson, Bibl. chemica 27-28.