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Il Tesoro della Sanita. Di Castor Durante da Gualdo, Medico & Cittadino Romano. Nel quale s' insegnail modo di conderuar la Sanitd & prolungar la vita. Ersitratta Della Natura De Ci"I, & de rimedii de' nocumenti loro
by DURANTE [DA GUALDO], Castore
- Used
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- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Venitia. Appresso Michiel Bonb'ello. 1596. 12mo, 15x 9.5cm, (in 8's), [viii,(including half title and title page both with vignette devices, one being the Papal crest),[viii,(index)326p., in original limp vellum, hand lettered spine ties, bands laced over the hinges, wrinkled, bottom wrap tattered with loss on the foredge half, last blank page with ms note which is defective with text loss, slight stain on the preliminaries, two worming holes on the fore edge, text block sound, good to very good, (hm.an.ds). ~ "The Treasury of Good Health. In which is Taught the Way to Conserve Health and Prolong Life." A collection of folk remedies with hygiene and dietary suggestions. Originally published in 1586 by Italian doctor and poet, Castor Durante (1529 1590), Church Physician at the Court of Pope Sixtus V. [Ask about binding restoration costs].
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- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38304
- Title
- Il Tesoro della Sanita. Di Castor Durante da Gualdo, Medico & Cittadino Romano. Nel quale s' insegnail modo di conderuar la Sanitd & prolungar la vita. Ersitratta Della Natura De Ci"I, & de rimedii de' nocumenti loro
- Author
- DURANTE [DA GUALDO], Castore
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Venitia. Appresso Michiel Bonb'ello. 1596
- Keywords
- SIXTEENTH CENTURY MEDICAL TREATISE ITALY DURANTE FOLK MEDICINE HYGIENE DIETARY ITALIAN LANGUAGE
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About the Seller
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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Ottawa, Ontario
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Vignette
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Fore Edge
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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