Monday, May 13, 2013

Nobile Socio. 1577.
Treatment of diseases, following the precepts of Hippocrates, Avicenna and Galen


Nobile Socio. 1577.

Treatment of diseases, following the precepts of Hippocrates, Avicenna and Galen


SOCIO, Nobile. 

De Temporibus et Modis recte purgandi in Morbis, Tractatus elegans juxta à ac doctus, summéque ad Hippocratis, Galeni, Avicennæ & caeterorum medicorum scripta intelligenda necessarius, Nobili Socio Salodiensi Medico auctore nunc primùm in lucem editus. 

Lyon, Alexandre Marsilii, 1577.

600 €

16mo (177x96 mm), 360-(8) pages. 
binding: Contemporary full limp vellum, flat spine with manuscript lettering. 
Cropped, a very few waterstain touching the first leaves. Binding a little worn.


Probably a re-issued with only the title page changed, of the first edition of 1555 given by Sébastien Honorat.

Rare work from Nobile Socio on the treatment of diseases, following the precepts of Hippocrates, Avicenna and Galen.

This issue given by Alexandre Marsilii seems very rare. Only one copy in the French libraries (BNF).

references: Baudrier [IV, 165 (ed. 1555)].

provenance: Petrus Parizot medicus (ownership inscription on title).


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