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Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Joannes Marie, 1633. [4], 800, [22] pp. Bound in early sheep with edges dyed blue, woodcut printer's device on title-page. (12mo) (4.75" x 2.75"). Text in Latin and Greek. Covers well rubbed but sound; old monastic rubberstamp to title-page, else very good. String ties perished.Former owner's name in ink on paste down next to a few bookseller notes in pencil. A truly classic series of medical texts that informed centuries of medicine. Includes the Greek text of famous Greek physician Hippocrates' Aphorismi, with the Latin translations by Foes and Plancy. Hippocrates is well-known as the first physician to believe diseases had physical, natural causes rather than supernatural ones. Galen's commentaries are in Plancy's Latin translation. Claudious Galenus (131-201 AD), better known as Galen, was a Greek physician whose views on medicine would dominate Europe for over a thousand years. He lived in Rome for many years, and performed many vivisections of animals, wrote…
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OECONOMIA HIPPOCRATIS, ALPHABETI SERIE DISTINCTA 1588
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Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12 ½ by `8. TITLE: OECONOMIA HIPPOCRATIS, ALPHABETI SERIE DISTINCTA 1588 AUTHOR: ANVTIO FOESIO MEDIOMATRICO PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) /COPYRIGHT: Apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, & Io.Aubrium, Anno S. MDLXXXVIII. EDITION: First Edition CATEGORY: Foreign, Educational, Super ...---NOT SIGNED---... BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket CONDITION: (All defects if any are formulated into pricing by ViewFair Books. If ViewFair Books miss any defects or highlights on any book/printings, our policy is to make immediate amends to any customer): The binding appears original with a decorative designs in the boards. The board edges have scuffing all about. Minor splitting to the hinges. There is a stray signature from 1878 that appears to be 'Liguard Hartirgson.' There is a stray number in pencil that can easily be removed from the inside board. Book is without any other marks or writings, pages are tone clean, and book is fairly tight and sturdy. BOOK HAS THE OLD SMELL WHICH IS USUAL CONSIDERING THE AGE. SIZE: 8 x 12 1/4 (approximately) PAGES: 694 pages Extra pictures located at the following: BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: First Edition. Apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, & Io.Aubrium, Anno S. MDLXXXVIII. Good (minus)/ None dust jacket condition as issued. THE BOOK APPEARS TO BE AN ALPHABETIZED DICTIONARY WITH ENGRAVINGS ON A FEW PAGES. "Foesius spent 40 years in the preparation of this concordance to Hippocrates. This work was unsurpassed until Littre's great work appeared 250 years later." Garrison-Morton 6793. Foesius (1528-95), studied medicine at Paris and returned to his native city of Metz to become a city physician. In addition to his medical duties and daily practice, he was a classical scholar who concentrated on the study of Hippocrates and his works. The fine medallion portrait of Foe on the verso fo the title-page was executed by the French engraver Pierre Woeiriot (ca. 1531-ca. 1589) and appears only in first editions of the book (ABE DEALER 2008). REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCode E 2k H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 004315.
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Claudii Galeni in Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentaria: Ex Interpretatione Anvtii Foesii, & Gvlielmi Plantii, cum Annotationibus Ejusdem... (Galen's Commentaries on Hippocrates' Aphorisms)
by Galen; Hippocrates; Adriano Toll [Editor]; Anuce Foës [Translator]; Guillaume Plancy [Translator]
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Tou megalou Hippokratous, ta heuriskomena = Magni Hippocratis opera omnia quae extant in VIII sectiones ex Erotiani mente distributa
by [Hippocrates] Anuce Foes (ed.)
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Frankfurt: F. & D. Aubriorum, 1621. Used - Very Good. . Hardcover. Frankfurt: Daniel & David Aubriorium, 1621. Text in Greek and Latin. Folio, 1344 pp. + appendix, index. Full cintemp. vellum, elaborately tooled in blind. All edges gauffered (with an elaborate floral design) but not gilt. Scuffing and wear to binding, esp. at edges, but still extremely sturdy. Some annotations in ink on blank preceding title; also some insect damage om endpaper and in margins of a few leaves. Moderate age-toning to some leaves. Engraved printer's device on title page, and again as colophon. Overall, very good. Very Good. (Subject: Early Printing).
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