HORST, Jakob. De aureo dente maxillari pueri silesii, primum, utrum eius generatio naturalis fuerit ... et de noctambulonum natura, differentiis et causis, Leipzig: [Michael Lantzenberger for] Valentin Vogelin, 1595, 8°, printer's device to title and recto of final leaf, with the blank L5 (browned throughout), contemporary blind-stamped calf with coloured plaquette of Abraham carrying a sacrificial sheep to front cover and King David and his harp to rear cover (head and tail of spine chipped away, lower compartment damaged, very rubbed), gilt and gauffered edges. [Adams H997; Waller 10644]

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HORST, Jakob. De aureo dente maxillari pueri silesii, primum, utrum eius generatio naturalis fuerit ... et de noctambulonum natura, differentiis et causis, Leipzig: [Michael Lantzenberger for] Valentin Vogelin, 1595, 8°, printer's device to title and recto of final leaf, with the blank L5 (browned throughout), contemporary blind-stamped calf with coloured plaquette of Abraham carrying a sacrificial sheep to front cover and King David and his harp to rear cover (head and tail of spine chipped away, lower compartment damaged, very rubbed), gilt and gauffered edges. [Adams H997; Waller 10644]
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"Ex libris Hermanni Salomonis Cnoppens studensis Saxonis Anno 1618", ownership inscription to title; scored ownership inscription to title; inscription to verso of endpaper in Latin and Greek.

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De natura differentiis et causis eorum qui dormientes ambulant, pp. 159-318 with special title page, includes extracts from Galenus, Aristoteles, Ludovicus Coelius Rhodiginus, Fracastorius, Levinus Lemnius, Petrus Salius Diversus, Antonius Mizaldus, and Johan. Langius.

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