Item #260486 Pro Conservanda Sanitate, Tuendaque Prospera Valetudine, ad Totius Humani Corporis Morbos et Aegritudines, Salutarium Remediorum, Curationumque Liber Utiliss. Vitalis de FURNO.
Pro Conservanda Sanitate, Tuendaque Prospera Valetudine, ad Totius Humani Corporis Morbos et Aegritudines, Salutarium Remediorum, Curationumque Liber Utiliss.
Pro Conservanda Sanitate, Tuendaque Prospera Valetudine, ad Totius Humani Corporis Morbos et Aegritudines, Salutarium Remediorum, Curationumque Liber Utiliss.

Pro Conservanda Sanitate, Tuendaque Prospera Valetudine, ad Totius Humani Corporis Morbos et Aegritudines, Salutarium Remediorum, Curationumque Liber Utiliss.

Mainz: Ioanne Schoeffer, 1531.

Decorated throughout with woodcut initials. [18], 271 pages. Small folio, rebound in 19th century 3/4 vellum over patterned boards (ex-library with small stamp at foot of title; some early ink underlining and marginalia, minor staining in margins on a some pages, several pages towards rear have mended tears). Moguntiae [Mainz]: Ioanne Schoeffer (a cuius proavo Ioannne Faust), 1531. A very good solid copy of this scarce book.

Furno was a cardinal and physician who flourished around 1312. The book is an encyclopedia of contemporary medical knowledge with 343 separate entries, both for ailments (e.g., "De Melancholia," "De dentibus & eorum passionibus") and for remedies (e.g., "De lacte Cameli," "De cornu bovis vel tauri"). Bibliografia Hipocratica, 1540; Wellcome 2479. OCLC lists 25 copies.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First
Language: Latin

Price: $6,000.00

Item #260486

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