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MONTE, Giovanni Battista (1489-1551). Consilia medica omnia. Nuremberg: [J. Montanus and U. Neuberus], 1559.
Extremely rare: only one record of this title selling at auction (Sotheby’s 6 October 1970, lot 449). ‘Da Monte, better known by his Latin cognomen, Montanus, was not only a very successful physician and teacher, but a noted poet as well. A fellow student of Vesalius at Padua, he later taught at Padua, and his practical instructions to students mark the beginning of clinical instruction in which he instituted bedside teaching, one of his most notable achievements. Called ‘the second Galen’, he was one of a group of medical humanists who were instrumental in reviving the Greek medical classics and eclipsing the influence and teachings of the Arabist school.’ (Heir of Hippocrates 225). Durling NLM 3251; not in Wellcome.
3 parts in one, folio (312 x 199mm). First title in red and black, all with xylographic head-pieces and initials (lacks final leaf with last 12 lines of text and colophon, leaves *4 and *5 supplied in facsimile, leaf ß4 gutter reinforced, marginal waterstains, minor worming in bottom margin of a few leaves, some browning and spotting). 20th-century morocco. Provenance: Nicolaus Novelius ?1581– Dr Philip Casper Schaff (inscriptions on title) – marginalia in various hands on first few gatherings.
Extremely rare: only one record of this title selling at auction (Sotheby’s 6 October 1970, lot 449). ‘Da Monte, better known by his Latin cognomen, Montanus, was not only a very successful physician and teacher, but a noted poet as well. A fellow student of Vesalius at Padua, he later taught at Padua, and his practical instructions to students mark the beginning of clinical instruction in which he instituted bedside teaching, one of his most notable achievements. Called ‘the second Galen’, he was one of a group of medical humanists who were instrumental in reviving the Greek medical classics and eclipsing the influence and teachings of the Arabist school.’ (Heir of Hippocrates 225). Durling NLM 3251; not in Wellcome.
3 parts in one, folio (312 x 199mm). First title in red and black, all with xylographic head-pieces and initials (lacks final leaf with last 12 lines of text and colophon, leaves *4 and *5 supplied in facsimile, leaf ß4 gutter reinforced, marginal waterstains, minor worming in bottom margin of a few leaves, some browning and spotting). 20th-century morocco. Provenance: Nicolaus Novelius ?1581– Dr Philip Casper Schaff (inscriptions on title) – marginalia in various hands on first few gatherings.
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