From Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
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The third printing with Lister's commentary, the work having been originally published in 1614. With a new dedication dated 1710. Duodecimo (14 x 8.5cm). ' In 1614 he published De Statica Medicina, a short work on the variation of weigh experienced by the human body as a result of ingestion and excretion. Filled with incisive and elliptic aphorisms, it dazzled his contemporaries and made him famous'- DSB. 'Ce livre est tres curieux et tres interessant'- Ladvocat. pp. [20],266. With an engraved frontispiece. A few margins in the prelims with very neat marginal repairs (with loss of no more than three letters), a few minor stains, slight loss to lower-edge margin title page. Otherwise an excellent copy in contemporary half calf, rubbed, but quite sound. Vg. [Keynes (Lister) 37; DSB XII, 101; Blake 401; Ladvocat III, 368; Garrison & Morton 573; Wellcome V, 22; Olschki Choix 9484; Osler 3914]. Seller Inventory # 11082
Bibliographic Details
Title: De Statica Medicina Aphorismorum Sectiones ...
Publisher: Patavii: Typis Jo. Baptistae Conzatti
Publication Date: 1710
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