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MERCURIALI, Girolamo (1530-1606). De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus. Venice: Paolo and Antonio Meietti, 1572.
4o (202 x 149 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title-page. (Some speckling on title, occasional pale spotting or minor dampstains, mostly marginal.) Contemporary limp Spanish vellum. Provenance: Early owner's name deleted on title; some early marginalia in several hands; partially faded library stamp on title ("Arch. S. Iacobi. Libreria").
FIRST EDITION of the "first systematic textbook on diseases of the skin" (Garrison-Morton) and the most famous Renaissance work on the subject. Adams M-1324; Garrison-Morton 3980; Norman 1496.
4o (202 x 149 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title-page. (Some speckling on title, occasional pale spotting or minor dampstains, mostly marginal.) Contemporary limp Spanish vellum. Provenance: Early owner's name deleted on title; some early marginalia in several hands; partially faded library stamp on title ("Arch. S. Iacobi. Libreria").
FIRST EDITION of the "first systematic textbook on diseases of the skin" (Garrison-Morton) and the most famous Renaissance work on the subject. Adams M-1324; Garrison-Morton 3980; Norman 1496.