Celsus Aulus Aurelius Cornelius Corn (2 results)
Language: Latin
Published by Apud MacLachlan et Stewart, Edinburgh, 1831
- Hardcover
Seller: Sheila B. Amdur, Coventry, CT, U.S.A.Sheila B. Amdur
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library. Tape marks top and bottom of spine, split along front edge of spine. Green embossed gold lettered cloth. lxviii, 639 pp. Frontispiece. In Latin with English synopsis. Pages unopened.
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De medicina libri octo brevioribus Rob. Constantini, Is. Casauboni, aliorumque scholiis ac locis parallelis illustrati. Cura & studio Th. J. ab Almeloveen . Editio ultima, Etc BOUND WITH: De Medecina Praecepta Saluberrima
Aur. Corn. Celsi (Celsus, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius, 25 BC - AD 50); Q. Serenii Samonici (Quintus Serenius Sammonicus
Published by Josephus Cominus, Patavii, 1722
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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket, As Issued. Two volumes bound in one. lxxii, 598 (misnumbered 998), (31), (2), 115, (3) pp. With frontis portrait of Celsus and title vignette. Early quarter calf over marbled boards, Good, heavy wear, boards nearly detached, edges showing, an early signature at title page obscured. Bookplat…e of Charles Atwood Kofoid, noted American zoologist at front paste down. "The De medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about AD 30, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Garrison and Morton, 20, Blake, NLM, pp. 82, 415; Wellcome, II, p.319, See also Waller, 1855. Quintus Serenius Sammonicus (d. 211) was physician to the Emperor Severus and was put to death by Caracalla. Allbutt called him 'a man of some attainments'. 'He left a library of 62,000 volumes to his son Quintus, to whom this 'De medicina' has also been attributed. See Osler 5433." ( references from Jeff Weber Rare Books). Size: Thick 12mo. Book.
