1539 PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY on MEDICINE of BEASTS CATTLE & BIRDS antique 16th CENT.

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Title: 1539 PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY on MEDICINE of BEASTS CATTLE & BIRDS antique 16th CENT.

Description: Sextus Placitus
Contenta in hoc opere
Sextus philosophus Platonicus de medicina animalium bestiarum, pecorum, et avium.
Cum scholiis
Gabrielis Humelbergii [1490-1544]
Ravenspurgensis medici
omnia iam primo aedita.
(Platonic philosopher on the medicine of beasts, cattle, and birds)
[Zurich, Christoph Froschauer]; 1539
Size 5 3/4 by 8 1/3"
122 pp., 4 leaves.
Original blind-stamped leather binding with later ties
Binding worn, with damaged corners
- VD16 P 3139. Durling 3672 . Wellcome 5072. Vischer C 283. -
First edition, edited and commented on by Gabriel Hummelberg (ca. 1490-1544).
Slightly dampstained in the first third, otherwise a mostly clean copy
Text in Latin

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1539 PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY on MEDICINE of BEASTS CATTLE & BIRDS antique 16th CENT.

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