ALPINUS, Prosperus. De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium. Libri septem, Venice: heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1601, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, woodcut title device and initials (title repaired at upper margin, old ink stain on recto of L3, verso of V2 and recto of V3 soiled at lower margin, V3 and some other leaves with slight crease marks, browned at page edges), 18th-century marbled boards with calf tips (recently rebacked in calf and restored at corners), ex University of Chicago Library Rare Science Duplicate Collection. [GM 2194: "A classical work on prognosis"; Krivatsy 242; Norman 40: "took into account the patient's mental state and its bearing on health as well as the usual physical diagnostic signs"]

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ALPINUS, Prosperus. De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium. Libri septem, Venice: heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1601, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, woodcut title device and initials (title repaired at upper margin, old ink stain on recto of L3, verso of V2 and recto of V3 soiled at lower margin, V3 and some other leaves with slight crease marks, browned at page edges), 18th-century marbled boards with calf tips (recently rebacked in calf and restored at corners), ex University of Chicago Library Rare Science Duplicate Collection. [GM 2194: "A classical work on prognosis"; Krivatsy 242; Norman 40: "took into account the patient's mental state and its bearing on health as well as the usual physical diagnostic signs"]

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