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GIUNTA, Tommaso (1494-1566, compiler). De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quàm quoscunque caeterarum artium probatos scriptores. Venice: heirs of Luc’ Antonio Giunta, 1553.
2º (322 x 213mm). Device of Luc’Antonio Giunta on title (Z633) and on ppp10 (Z627), one full-page diagram and 4 other full-page woodcuts, two woodcut headpieces, numerous historiated and foliated initials. Double column. With final blank. (ss3 and ss6 browned, iii5-6 short at foremargin, a small degree of spotting and soiling.) Modern vellum, manuscript title on spine.
FIRST EDITION, augmented issue with signature qqq at end and the printed amendment on 15r mentioned by Mortimer. This was an unequalled collection of writings on balneology by more than 70 authorities whose names are listed on 14v and 15r. Conrad Gesner’s treatise on the thermal springs of Switzerland and Germany is printed here for the first time. Joachim Camerarius gives a poetical description of the mineral baths at Plombières, the subject of a magnificent woodcut. The extra signature qqq contains extracts from the writings of Hippocrates and Galen compiled by Giovanni Antonio Secchi. The Giunta heirs at this time were Tommaso and Giovanni Maria. Tommaso’s name heads the dedication to Francesco Contarini. BL/STC Italian p.363; Brunet I, 628: ‘collection rare et recherché’; Camerini, Giunti, vol. I, pt. 1, 598; Choulant, Handbuch, p. 420; Durling 1101; Garrison and Morton 1986: ‘gives an extensive history of balneology and an exact description of all the then known watering-places (about two hundred)’; Ley, Gesner, 143: 34; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 214; Wellcome I, 652.
2º (322 x 213mm). Device of Luc’Antonio Giunta on title (Z633) and on ppp10 (Z627), one full-page diagram and 4 other full-page woodcuts, two woodcut headpieces, numerous historiated and foliated initials. Double column. With final blank. (ss3 and ss6 browned, iii5-6 short at foremargin, a small degree of spotting and soiling.) Modern vellum, manuscript title on spine.
FIRST EDITION, augmented issue with signature qqq at end and the printed amendment on 15r mentioned by Mortimer. This was an unequalled collection of writings on balneology by more than 70 authorities whose names are listed on 14v and 15r. Conrad Gesner’s treatise on the thermal springs of Switzerland and Germany is printed here for the first time. Joachim Camerarius gives a poetical description of the mineral baths at Plombières, the subject of a magnificent woodcut. The extra signature qqq contains extracts from the writings of Hippocrates and Galen compiled by Giovanni Antonio Secchi. The Giunta heirs at this time were Tommaso and Giovanni Maria. Tommaso’s name heads the dedication to Francesco Contarini. BL/STC Italian p.363; Brunet I, 628: ‘collection rare et recherché’; Camerini, Giunti, vol. I, pt. 1, 598; Choulant, Handbuch, p. 420; Durling 1101; Garrison and Morton 1986: ‘gives an extensive history of balneology and an exact description of all the then known watering-places (about two hundred)’; Ley, Gesner, 143: 34; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 214; Wellcome I, 652.
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