ISAAC Medicus (fl.mid-9th-mid-10th century). De particularibus diaetis, Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, 23 March 1487, 4° (193 x 140mm), 60 leaves, gothic type, ornamental woodcut initials, contemporary marginal annotations including German translations of plant names, unbound, in a blue morocco-backed box. [H *9267; BMC VII, 923; Goff I-176; DSB VII, 22]

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ISAAC Medicus (fl.mid-9th-mid-10th century). De particularibus diaetis, Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, 23 March 1487, 4° (193 x 140mm), 60 leaves, gothic type, ornamental woodcut initials, contemporary marginal annotations including German translations of plant names, unbound, in a blue morocco-backed box. [H *9267; BMC VII, 923; Goff I-176; DSB VII, 22]

FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of Isaac's treatise on diet, which was a standard medical text in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Jewish medical doctor Isaac was physician to the last of the Aghlabid emirs and then to the Fatimid caliph.