Da Monte, Giovanni Battista.

8vo (150 x 101mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, without final blank leaf, eighteenth-century vellum-backed boards, blue speckled edges, some early annotations, blank lower corner of C8 torn away, occasional slight staining, extremities slightly rubbed

Mattheus Babinger, MD, inscription on title-page dated 1633

Censimento 16 CNCE 15929 (variant B, with "Almansorem" in title and dedication to Francesco Soranzo by Costantini); Wellcome 4424

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first edition. Da Monte (1498-1551) was professor of clinical medicine at the University of Padua, where he had been a fellow student of Vesalius's. Costantini specialised in medical books and published many of da Monte's works, many of which were commentaries on the writings of canonical authors such as Galen, Avicenna and Hippocrates. For the text of Rhazes, see lot 171.