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Medicine.- Medici Antiqui Omnes, qui latinis Literis Diversorum Morborum Genera et Remedia Persecuti sunt..., collation: * **6 a8 *2 b-h8 i6 k10 l-z, A-Q8 R6, mostly Roman type, with index in italic, capital spaces with guide-letters, small woodcut decorative initials, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, early ink marginalia (some trimmed by binder), some staining to sig.x, occasional spotting, a few ff. lightly browned, 19th century calf-backed mottled boards, spine gilt and with red morocco label (chipped), joints splitting, spine ends slightly worn, corners worn, rubbed and stained, folio (310 x 202mm.), Venice, [Sons of Aldus], 1547.

⁂ Only Aldine edition of a collection of Roman writings on medicine and pharmacology matters.

Provenance: 'Luisa Sormani Busca Arconati Visconti' (bookplate).

Literature: Adams M991; Ahmanson-Murphy 368; Renouard, Alde, 140:2; EDIT CNCE 26973.

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Medicine.- Medici Antiqui Omnes, qui latinis Literis Diversorum Morborum Genera et Remedia Persecuti sunt..., collation: * **6 a8 *2 b-h8 i6 k10 l-z, A-Q8 R6, mostly Roman type, with index in italic, capital spaces with guide-letters, small woodcut decorative initials, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, early ink marginalia (some trimmed by binder), some staining to sig.x, occasional spotting, a few ff. lightly browned, 19th century calf-backed mottled boards, spine gilt and with red morocco label (chipped), joints splitting, spine ends slightly worn, corners worn, rubbed and stained, folio (310 x 202mm.), Venice, [Sons of Aldus], 1547.

⁂ Only Aldine edition of a collection of Roman writings on medicine and pharmacology matters.

Provenance: 'Luisa Sormani Busca Arconati Visconti' (bookplate).

Literature: Adams M991; Ahmanson-Murphy 368; Renouard, Alde, 140:2; EDIT CNCE 26973.

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