Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Florentino interprete, cum nonnullis eiusdem Vidij com m entariis

by Guido Guidi, known as Vidus Vidius, Nicetas

$125,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 30 April 1544. / First edition, in contemporary limp vellum, uncropped — the editio princeps of Greek surgery, and, with Vesalius and Estienne, one of the three great illustrated medical books of the Renaissance. Guido Guidi, Florentine, first professor of anatomy at the Collège Royal, brought to Paris a copy of a tenth-century Byzantine codex of Hippocrates, Galen, and Oribasius on fractures, dislocations, wounds,

• Binding: Leather

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