Description:
Venice: apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1598. First Venice Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio (310 x 210mm). [2],175pp., [1], 301pp. [2], 12pp., 175pp., [1]. Contemporary dark brown goatskin, (title and preliminaries lacking and supplied in early manuscript with illustrated printers device, some browning and staining least severe after page 9). 17th-century inscriptions on rear endpaper for Index Capitum, a medical students description of the various parts. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on front endpaper. Sold as is. First Venice Edition of Capivaccios philosophical practica in Galenic teachings, a pillar for medical students of the Renaissance. First edition printed in Frankfurt in 1594 under the title Practica Medicina. Capivaccios lectures were posthumously edited by Johann Hartmann Beyer. This is the first Venice edition of these lectures on the healing sciences by one of the leading Italian medical practitioners of his time is edited by Giovanni…
Read More Medicina practica, sive Methodos cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectum.. by CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo - 1597
by CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo
Medicina practica, sive Methodos cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectum..
by CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
Venice: Baptistam, & Ioan. Bernardum Sessam, 1597. Soft cover. Fair. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (320x225 mm). [2], 27, [1], 175 n.ll., 310, [2] pp., title with large vignette device printed in red and black, woodcut initials and headers in text, last leaf with colophon, contemporary limp vellum, very worn and shriveled, title-page, first and last leaves chipped at corners and frayed, dog ears, occasional marginal dampstaining, ink-spotting and soiling, little worming to top margins, frequent ink annotations in old hand. ---- NLM/Durling 816 (list the 1598 edition only), not in Garrison-Morton and Wellcome I. - The first Venice edition, edited Giovanni Bernardo Sessa.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (DE)
- Format/Binding Soft cover
- Book Condition Used - Fair
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Baptistam, & Ioan. Bernardum Sessam
- Place of Publication Venice
- Date Published 1597
- Keywords Medicine Medicine