GALENUS, Claudius. Opera omnia, in Greek, Basle: Joannes Hervagius & Johann Erasmus Froben, 1538, 5 volumes, 2°, woodcut title devices, volumes I-II and IV with further device on verso of final leaf, volume 5 with woodcut illustration of skeletons on 5Z6v and 5Z7r, fine woodcut historiated initials throughout (all volumes affected by marginal dampstaining, all but one vol. with title detached, volume V with both title and following leaf detached, vol. I: title and verso of final leaf both soiled, conspicuous dampstaining in the same vol., mainly restricted to margins but 2f8r more badly stained, 2e1-2g8 with wormhole at outer margin, final leaf holed with very slight loss to colophon and device on verso, vol. II: block broken at K1, quires K-O8 detached, vol. III: heavy dampstaining at lower margins, block broken leaving several quires detached, vol. IV: block split at 3V1, vol. V: heavy dampstaining, particularly of the early quires which also have slight nick to lower margins, 5o1r a little soiled ), 18th-century calf (rebacked but now worn with covers detached). [Adams G33] Provenance: later manuscript marginalia (5)
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GALENUS, Claudius. Opera omnia, in Greek, Basle: Joannes Hervagius & Johann Erasmus Froben, 1538, 5 volumes, 2°, woodcut title devices, volumes I-II and IV with further device on verso of final leaf, volume 5 with woodcut illustration of skeletons on 5Z6v and 5Z7r, fine woodcut historiated initials throughout (all volumes affected by marginal dampstaining, all but one vol. with title detached, volume V with both title and following leaf detached, vol. I: title and verso of final leaf both soiled, conspicuous dampstaining in the same vol., mainly restricted to margins but 2f8r more badly stained, 2e1-2g8 with wormhole at outer margin, final leaf holed with very slight loss to colophon and device on verso, vol. II: block broken at K1, quires K-O8 detached, vol. III: heavy dampstaining at lower margins, block broken leaving several quires detached, vol. IV: block split at 3V1, vol. V: heavy dampstaining, particularly of the early quires which also have slight nick to lower margins, 5o1r a little soiled ), 18th-century calf (rebacked but now worn with covers detached). [Adams G33] Provenance: later manuscript marginalia (5)
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Volume I is without k9-10 called for by Adams, though the text appears continuous.
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