ALEXANDER Trallianus (525-605). Libri duodecim, Graeci et Latini, multo quam antea auctiores & integriorees: Joanne Guinterio Andernaco interprete, & emendatore, Basle: Henricus Petri, [colophon: 1556], 8°, double column in Greek and Latin (title soiled, with library perforation and section of lower margin cut away, index leaves misbound at end), contemporary vellum. [Adams A703 (Cambridge copies wanting index leaves); Durling 144; Wellcome I, 213] Provenance: Latin manuscript notes in a 17th-century hand on blank leaves at end; Jo. Chr. Gottlieb Aokermann M.D. Halae Sept. 1776; Baum (two inscriptions on front blank); Senn Collection, donated to the Newberry Library 1894 (gift label); JCL

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ALEXANDER Trallianus (525-605). Libri duodecim, Graeci et Latini, multo quam antea auctiores & integriorees: Joanne Guinterio Andernaco interprete, & emendatore, Basle: Henricus Petri, [colophon: 1556], 8°, double column in Greek and Latin (title soiled, with library perforation and section of lower margin cut away, index leaves misbound at end), contemporary vellum. [Adams A703 (Cambridge copies wanting index leaves); Durling 144; Wellcome I, 213] Provenance: Latin manuscript notes in a 17th-century hand on blank leaves at end; Jo. Chr. Gottlieb Aokermann M.D. Halae Sept. 1776; Baum (two inscriptions on front blank); Senn Collection, donated to the Newberry Library 1894 (gift label); JCL

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A leading Alexandrine physician, Alexander of Tralles was a keen observer of clinical conditions, and his descriptions of pleurisy and other chest conditions in this work are regarded as remarkably accurate.

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