PAULUS Aegineta (ca. 625-ca. 690). De medica materia libri septem, totius fere artis medice breviarium. Quinque quidem primi septimusque Albano Torino ... interprete. Sextus vero De Chirurgia quem Germani non sunt interpretati, a Joanne Bernardo Feliciano ... nunc primum Latinitate donatus, Venice: [Luc'Antonio Giunta], 1532, 2°, woodcut device on title and verso of K7, many woodcut initials, some historiated, repeated woodcut headpiece (title with blind stamp, also a trifle soiled and stained at margins, otherwise a clean and crisp copy with just occasional waterstaining or soiling at margins, K1 with old repair at inner margin, worming in final gathering largely restricted to lower margin but also affecting first 2 lines of text on K6-7, text of K7 also slightly affected by central tear recto and verso, blind-stamp repeated on K3, [?] lacking final blank), contemporary vellum (worn at upper joints and head of spine, slightly bowed). [Durling 3550: "the first edition to contain a Latin version of book VI, prepared specially for it by Felicianus at the request of Tommaso Giunta"] Provenance: Berlin Collection.

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PAULUS Aegineta (ca. 625-ca. 690). De medica materia libri septem, totius fere artis medice breviarium. Quinque quidem primi septimusque Albano Torino ... interprete. Sextus vero De Chirurgia quem Germani non sunt interpretati, a Joanne Bernardo Feliciano ... nunc primum Latinitate donatus, Venice: [Luc'Antonio Giunta], 1532, 2°, woodcut device on title and verso of K7, many woodcut initials, some historiated, repeated woodcut headpiece (title with blind stamp, also a trifle soiled and stained at margins, otherwise a clean and crisp copy with just occasional waterstaining or soiling at margins, K1 with old repair at inner margin, worming in final gathering largely restricted to lower margin but also affecting first 2 lines of text on K6-7, text of K7 also slightly affected by central tear recto and verso, blind-stamp repeated on K3, [?] lacking final blank), contemporary vellum (worn at upper joints and head of spine, slightly bowed). [Durling 3550: "the first edition to contain a Latin version of book VI, prepared specially for it by Felicianus at the request of Tommaso Giunta"] Provenance: Berlin Collection.

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