Mercuriale, Girolamo
Praelectiones Pisanae
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
in Epidemicas Hippocratis Historias non minus ad Theoricam, atque Practicam Medicinam utiles, quam ob eruditionem Jucundae. Nec non Tractatus, Primo, De Hominis Generatione. Secundo, De Balneis Pisanis. Tertio, De Vino et Aqua. Venice: apud Juntas, 1597. First edition, folio (30 x 21.5cm), [16] 208 56 [4] 11 pp., contemporary limp vellum, woodcut Giuntine device to title-page, main text printed in double column in roman letter, ownership inscription ‘Octaviani Galleppini’ to title-page, early ink marginalia to the final part (concerning wine), customary soiling to vellum, shallow erosion to upper fore corner of front cover and prelims, damp-stain to head of gutter throughout and to fore margin of prelims including title-page, K3-4 browned [Adams M1333; EDIT16 CNCE 34142; Heirs of Hippocrates 360]
Footnote
'This work, a collection of lectures given by Mercuriale at the University of Pisa, is largely devoted to a history of epidemics based on the writings of Hippocrates. It also contains Mercuriale's remarks on the plague as well as three shorter lectures on conception, the baths and mineral waters of Pisa, and the various qualities of wine and water' (Heirs of Hippocrates).