GRATAROLI, Guglielmo (1516-68). [De literatorum & eorum qui magistratibus funguntur conservanda praeservandaque valetudine. English] A Direction for the Health of Magistrates and Studentes ... written in Latin ... and Englished by T. N[ewton], London: William How for Abraham Veale, 1574, small 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, printed in black letter, woodcut title border, 7-line woodcut opening initial (some headlines shaved, small stain to outer margin of H2), 18th-century calf (rebacked and repaired), 19th-century marbled endpapers, g.e. [Durling 2158; Oxford p. 5; STC 12193A]

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GRATAROLI, Guglielmo (1516-68). [De literatorum & eorum qui magistratibus funguntur conservanda praeservandaque valetudine. English] A Direction for the Health of Magistrates and Studentes ... written in Latin ... and Englished by T. N[ewton], London: William How for Abraham Veale, 1574, small 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, printed in black letter, woodcut title border, 7-line woodcut opening initial (some headlines shaved, small stain to outer margin of H2), 18th-century calf (rebacked and repaired), 19th-century marbled endpapers, g.e. [Durling 2158; Oxford p. 5; STC 12193A]

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First published at Basle by Henricus Petri in 1555. Grataroli, a native of Bergamo, taught at Basle after taking his degree at Padua, and was the author of several works in the fields of medicine, mnemonics, botany and epidemiology.

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