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SYLVIUS, Jacobus

Methodus sex librorum Galeni in differentiis et causis morborum & symptomatum. In tabellas sex ordine suo coniecta [...]. De signis omnibus medicis [...] commentarius [...]

Venice
Vincenzo Valgrisi
1554

€200 - €300

4to: [8]-130-[1, 1 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on title and at the end. (somewhat soiled, inner margin stained and gnawed at in centre). Old limp boards covered with fragments of a medieval manuscript and from an early printed book, flat spine, remains of ties (loosening, stained, spine dam.). In all a good copy

Extremely rare Latin commentary on Galen's system of diagnostics by the French anatomist Jacques Dubois (Sylvius, 1478-1555). Ref. Edit16 17800. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old ownership entries on title and front endpaper. F. A. Sondervorst (Leuven professor of medicine, 1909-1986; bookpl.)

Medicine