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Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem: Quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continetur: I.B. Rasario Novariensi medico interpret.
Oribasius (1554)


Author: Oribasius
Title: Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem: Quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continetur: I.B. Rasario Novariensi medico interpret.
Year: 1554
Place: Venice
Publisher: P. Manutius, Aldi filius.
Printer: P. Manutius, Aldi filius.
Collation: 216 lvs., sm. 8vo.
Binding: cont. limp vellum
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References: DSB 10, 230-1; Hirsch IV, 440-1; Hoffmann III, 175; Waller, 7004; Adams, O-272; Brunet IV, 226.
Notes: Oribasius (4th century), physician & head of the library of Emperor Julian the Apostate. This work is a kind of abridged edition or vade-mecum for his son extracted from his Collectiones Medicae. Oribasius is especially important for his role in preserving earlier, more important medical authors, whom we know about, in part, only through his excerpts. - Extremely rare first edition. (Leaf O6 in photostat.)
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