VIRDUNG VON HASSFURT, Johann (ca. 1465- ca. 1538). De Cognoscendis, et medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium positione libri IIII. Cum argumentis, & expositionibus Joannis Paulli Gallucii Saloensis, quibus non solum obscuriora redduntur aperta, verum nonnulla ad usum necessaria addita sunt. Quibus accesserunt in eandem sententiam auctores alii, Venice: Damianus Zenarus, 1584, 4°, woodcut diagrams, many 6- or 10-line historiated initials (lacking the engraved plate called for by Durling, title slightly soiled and restored at upper margin, John Crerar stamps on verso of title and final leaf, accession stamp on *2, some light browning), recent calf preserving old covers (spine rubbed, bowed) [Durling 4631] Provenance: W. A. Leary's Cheap Book Store, Philadelphia (label); JCL

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VIRDUNG VON HASSFURT, Johann (ca. 1465- ca. 1538). De Cognoscendis, et medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium positione libri IIII. Cum argumentis, & expositionibus Joannis Paulli Gallucii Saloensis, quibus non solum obscuriora redduntur aperta, verum nonnulla ad usum necessaria addita sunt. Quibus accesserunt in eandem sententiam auctores alii, Venice: Damianus Zenarus, 1584, 4°, woodcut diagrams, many 6- or 10-line historiated initials (lacking the engraved plate called for by Durling, title slightly soiled and restored at upper margin, John Crerar stamps on verso of title and final leaf, accession stamp on *2, some light browning), recent calf preserving old covers (spine rubbed, bowed) [Durling 4631] Provenance: W. A. Leary's Cheap Book Store, Philadelphia (label); JCL

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Includes a Hermetic treatise by Jacobo Antonio Mariscotto, first published in the 1565 Giunta edition of Galen's collected works.

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