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BENIVIENI, Antonio (1443-1502). De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis. Edited by Girolamo Benivieni (ca. 1453-1542) and Giovanni Rosati (fl. 1480-1507). Florence Filippo Giunta, 1507.
8o (205 x 138 mm). a-f8 g6. 54 leaves. Roman type. 113 hand-illuminated chapter initials in two styles: in the first part of the book, colored initials on flat gold grounds, probably 16th-century Italian work, for the final chapters, later colored initals with gold or silver pen-flourishing. (Lower right corner of d7 cropped and repaired.) 18th-century quarter sheep, spine gilt with morocco label, marbled boards. Modern morocco folding case.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the first treatise on pathology based on post-mortem examinations. "Antonio Benivieni was a friend and colleague of several of his distinguished contemporaries, including Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, Benedetto Varchi, and Lorenzo de'Medici; during his thirty years of medical practice he attended the most important families in Florence. However, his fame today rests on the posthumous De abditis, edited by his brother, the poet Girolamo Benivieni, and the physician Giovanni Rosati. The title of the book, which translates as 'on the several hidden and strange causes of disease and cure,' reflects the author's interest in ascertaining, via postmortem examination, the reasons for death in cases where diagnosis during life had been obscured... De abditis was derived from the large number of manuscript records that Benivieni left behind him at his death. The work was originally conceived as a treatise of 300 sections to be published in three series or centuriae; however, Benivieni compled only 160 sections, and of these the editors selected 111." (Grolier Medicine).
Adams B-664; Garrison-Morton 2270; Grolier Medicine 12 (this copy exhibited); NLM/Durling 528; Waller 894; Norman 183.
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VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the first treatise on pathology based on post-mortem examinations. "Antonio Benivieni was a friend and colleague of several of his distinguished contemporaries, including Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, Benedetto Varchi, and Lorenzo de'Medici; during his thirty years of medical practice he attended the most important families in Florence. However, his fame today rests on the posthumous De abditis, edited by his brother, the poet Girolamo Benivieni, and the physician Giovanni Rosati. The title of the book, which translates as 'on the several hidden and strange causes of disease and cure,' reflects the author's interest in ascertaining, via postmortem examination, the reasons for death in cases where diagnosis during life had been obscured... De abditis was derived from the large number of manuscript records that Benivieni left behind him at his death. The work was originally conceived as a treatise of 300 sections to be published in three series or centuriae; however, Benivieni compled only 160 sections, and of these the editors selected 111." (Grolier Medicine).
Adams B-664; Garrison-Morton 2270; Grolier Medicine 12 (this copy exhibited); NLM/Durling 528; Waller 894; Norman 183.