BRASAVOLA, Antonio Musa (1500-1555). De Medicamentis tam simplicibus, quam compositis catharticis, quae unicuique humori sunt propria, Venice: Giunta, 1552, 8°, (?) FIRST EDITION, woodcut initials (dampstained in the earlier part), contemporary vellum with yapp edges (ties lacking). [Adams B2680; Durling 673]; Provenance: marginal annotations in an early hand and effaced inscription of comparable date on front blank; JCL. Together with another work by Fallopius (defective). (2)

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BRASAVOLA, Antonio Musa (1500-1555). De Medicamentis tam simplicibus, quam compositis catharticis, quae unicuique humori sunt propria, Venice: Giunta, 1552, 8°, (?) FIRST EDITION, woodcut initials (dampstained in the earlier part), contemporary vellum with yapp edges (ties lacking). [Adams B2680; Durling 673]; Provenance: marginal annotations in an early hand and effaced inscription of comparable date on front blank; JCL. Together with another work by Fallopius (defective). (2)

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Brassavola, the personal physician to Popes Paul III, Leo X, Clement VII, and Julius III, and also to the Emperor Charles V, King Francis I and King Henry VIII, was the author of some seventy books and articles, and one of the outstanding pupils of the Italian medical humanist, Niccolò Leoniceno.

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