SAMBUCUS, Johannes. Icones veterum aliquot ad recentium medicorum philosophorumque... Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1574, large 8°, title within engraved border, 67 engraved portraits (very good, clean copy with 4 portrait spaces left blank, slight worming, pin marks to some leaves), contemporary vellum, leather cords (tail of spine chipped, front cover warped)

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SAMBUCUS, Johannes. Icones veterum aliquot ad recentium medicorum philosophorumque... Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1574, large 8°, title within engraved border, 67 engraved portraits (very good, clean copy with 4 portrait spaces left blank, slight worming, pin marks to some leaves), contemporary vellum, leather cords (tail of spine chipped, front cover warped)

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Contains portraits of Versalius, Paracelsus, Rufus, Plato, Seneca, Massa, Socrates, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Hippocrates and others.

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