Galenus, Claudius.

5 volumes, folio (327 x 222mm.), text in Greek, Aldine device on title-pages and final versos, seventeenth-century calf, spines gilt in compartments, early manuscript annotations in different hands (some shaved), zz10 and o4 in vol.2 and xxx9 in vol.3 and 8/3 in vol.4 with erased inscriptions, upper corner of aaa2 in vol.3 torn (not affecting text), marginal paper repairs to LLl7-8 in vol.4 and Cc8 in vol.5, last leaf of vol.4 slightly spotted with tear in gutter, first 7 leaves of vol.5 (including title-leaf) damaged and defective, vol.5 damp-stained at beginning, without blank leaf *3 in vol.3, lacking final leaf (AAA6) in vol.5, bindings worn

Villerius, early inscription in red dated 1574 at Zurich on title-page of volumes 1, 3 and 5 (partly obscured); Camille Falconet of Lyon, inscription on each title-page; Lyon public library, stamp on each title-page

Camille Falconet (1671-1762), physician to Louis XV, amassed a library of about 50,000 volumes. He gave about 11,000 titles missing from the royal library to the king in 1742. The rest of his library was sold in Paris in 1763; while it contained many editions and commentaries on Galen, we have been unable to trace this particular edition in the sale catalogue.

Adams G32; Censimento 16 CNCE 20152; Renouard 101/3; Texas 211-215; UCLA 202-204, 206-207; Durling 1748; Wellcome 2507

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editio princeps of the surviving writings of Galen.