Celsus Aulus Aurelius Cornelius Corn (2 results)

Hardcover. 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.

Condition: very good. Libri Octo Brevioribus Rob. Constantini, Is. Casauboni Aliorum que Scholiis ac locis Parallelis Illustrati Cura & Studio Th. J. ab Almeloveen.Accedunt Joh. Rhodii vita C. Celsi, itenm contenta Capitum & Index Auctorum Veterum qui passim in hoc opere ciitantur, praeterea collatio trium Vet. Edition & MSS. Ital &. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joh. Arn. Langerak, 1730. TWO VOLUMES. Two Near Fine hardbacks in modern brown buckram. Gilt lettering spine. Editio ultima prioribus multo auctior & emendatior. Title page printed red and black. Added Illustrated title page, Frontispiece portrait. Two engravings in text (Celsum Scholia Section rear pps. 8, 41). 16mo. (64), 688 49, (39) pp. Hardcover. Near Fine. Garrison-Morton 20 (for the 1478 edition). This is the oldest medical treatise with the exception of Hippocrates writings. Written about A.D. 30, it is the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome and the first Western history of medicine. De Medicina discusses diseases treated by diet and regimen as well as those amenable to drugs and surgery. The manuscript was lost in the middle ages and rediscovered in Milan in 1443.DW.…