De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor

by Prosper Alpini

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition, title page corrected at lines 6-8 as per Mortimer . With 2 full-page woodcuts, and others in text; title page vignette, ornamental initials throughout. 12 , 150, 25 leaves. 1 vols. 4to in 8s 245 x 174mm. . Old limp vellum, later cloth label. Usual light soiling. Some dampstaining to bottom corner margin in gatherings L-R. Early marginal notes on three leaves 47v, 48v, 103r . Ownership signatures of Giuseppi Nedili and Jeome Coli at foot

• Binding: Leather

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