![PETRUS de ABANO (c.1257–1316). Libellus sane aureus. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1550. [Bound with:] BUCCI, Domenico (d.1567). Quaestia IIII Medicinalia juxta Hippocratis et Galeni mentem examinata. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1551. [and:] BRILLI de Lendenaria, Ippolito (fl.16th-century). Opusculum de vermibus in corpore humano genitis. Venice: Officina Erasmiana, 1540. [and:] Praxis medicinae. Venice: Giovanni Padovano, 1545.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0211_001(petrus_de_abano_libellus_sane_aureus_venice_giovanni_griffio_1550_boun024719).jpg?w=1)
![PETRUS de ABANO (c.1257–1316). Libellus sane aureus. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1550. [Bound with:] BUCCI, Domenico (d.1567). Quaestia IIII Medicinalia juxta Hippocratis et Galeni mentem examinata. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1551. [and:] BRILLI de Lendenaria, Ippolito (fl.16th-century). Opusculum de vermibus in corpore humano genitis. Venice: Officina Erasmiana, 1540. [and:] Praxis medicinae. Venice: Giovanni Padovano, 1545.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0211_002(petrus_de_abano_libellus_sane_aureus_venice_giovanni_griffio_1550_boun024735).jpg?w=1)
![PETRUS de Abano (c.1257–1316). Libellus sane aureus. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1550. [Bound with:] BUCCI, Domenico (d.1567). Quaestia IIII Medicinalia juxta Hippocratis et Galeni mentem examinata. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1551. [and:] BRILLI de Lendenaria, Ippolito (fl.16th-century). Opusculum de vermibus in corpore humano genitis. Venice: Officina Erasmiana, 1540. [and:] Praxis medicinae. Venice: Giovanni Padovano, 1545.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0211_000(petrus_de_abano_libellus_sane_aureus_venice_giovanni_griffio_1550_boun044300).jpg?w=1)
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PETRUS de ABANO (c.1257–1316). Libellus sane aureus. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1550. [Bound with:] BUCCI, Domenico (d.1567). Quaestia IIII Medicinalia juxta Hippocratis et Galeni mentem examinata. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1551. [and:] BRILLI de Lendenaria, Ippolito (fl.16th-century). Opusculum de vermibus in corpore humano genitis. Venice: Officina Erasmiana, 1540. [and:] Praxis medicinae. Venice: Giovanni Padovano, 1545.
4 works in one volume, 8° (154 x 102mm). Woodcut device on titles of first two works, large woodcut on final leaf of first work, woodcut historiated initials. (Some waterstaining at end.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: early annotations — Van der Hoeven (bookplate and ownership inscriptions dated 1860 and 1900) — previously sold at Sotheby’s in 1984.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS of four 16th-century medical treatises collected in one volume. Petrus: Wellcome I, 4945; not in Durling, Adams, or BL/STC. Bucius: Durling 769; Wellcome I, 1143; not in Adams. Brilli: Durling 708; BL/STC Italian Books p.126; not in Wellcome or Adams. Praxis: Durling 3757; Wellcome 5245; not in Adams.
4 works in one volume, 8° (154 x 102mm). Woodcut device on titles of first two works, large woodcut on final leaf of first work, woodcut historiated initials. (Some waterstaining at end.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: early annotations — Van der Hoeven (bookplate and ownership inscriptions dated 1860 and 1900) — previously sold at Sotheby’s in 1984.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS of four 16th-century medical treatises collected in one volume. Petrus: Wellcome I, 4945; not in Durling, Adams, or BL/STC. Bucius: Durling 769; Wellcome I, 1143; not in Adams. Brilli: Durling 708; BL/STC Italian Books p.126; not in Wellcome or Adams. Praxis: Durling 3757; Wellcome 5245; not in Adams.
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