Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

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Mesue, I libri di Gio, Venice, Giovanni de Gara, 1589, contemporary limp vellum

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October 18, 08:42 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 USD

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Mesue (Yuhanna ibn Masawaih), Pseudo-. I libri di Gio. Mesue de i semplici purgatiui, et delle medicine composte... Nuouamente per m. Giacomo Rossetto in miglior forma e dispositione ordinati per piu commodo vso de' medici, e di speciali, e d'altri. Venice: Giovanni de Gara (Biblioteca Aldina), 1589

 

The Aldine edition of this famous medical treatise with, for the first time, 44 pages explaining the most challenging words from Arabic, Latin, and Greek origin.

 

8vo (144 x 95 mm). Roman and italic type, 38 lines plus headline. collation: *8 A-Z8 Aa-Bb8 Cc4: 212 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials, early annotations to title, first few leaves, and final leaf. (Scattered foxing and soiling.)

 

binding: Contemporary limp vellum (150 x 105 mm), title on spine. (Wrinkled, upper endleaf removed, some areas of loss, upper joint cracked.)


provenance: "ad usu(m) Hio. ba.ro Riccardus, Castilione," early inscription on title-page — Carlo Antonio Coccia Leonina, inscription on title; "Coccia" on tail-edge. acquisition: Purchased from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1991. references: UCLA 1099; Renouard 242/5; Edit16 34003; USTC 842299; NLM/Durling 3149

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