Libelli duo, alter de ulceribus, alter de tumoribus praeter naturam, nunc recens in lucem editi by FALLOPPIO, Gabriele [FALLOPIUS, Gabriel] - 1563

Venice: Donato Bertelli, 1563. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (222 x 154 mm). [3], 101, [1] leaves. Signatures: A3, A* A-Z4 Aa4 Bb6, with both, the cancel and cancelland leaf present. Title page with woodcut vignette, woodcut intials in text, errata on final leaf recto. 19th-century drab boards, spine with gilt-lettered paper label (rebacked with most of original spine preserved, corners scuffed, extremities rubbed, boards stained). Leaves untrimmed. Text only very little browned, faint minor spotting and soiling of outer margins, leaf E2 loose, two leaves with old paper repair to top blank margin. Provenance: Henri Aniere, Paris (sticker to front pastedown). A fine, crisp and wide-margined copy. ---- Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates 333, Cushing F25; NLM/Durling 1438; Waller 2934; Wellcome I, 2156 (2nd edition only). EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION. "Fallopius was a clinician as well as an anatomist, and this treatise on diseases of the skin (ulcers and tumors) is one of the most complete of its kind up to the time of its publication. An interesting bibliographical point in this copy is the canceling of leaf 1 with a substitute leaf, but the cancelland was not removed, thus leaving both the original leaf and its substitute in place." (Heirs of Hippocrates). This first edition is rare. Only one copy has appeared at auction in the past 80 years (the Virchow copy, Christie's 2016). - Visit our website for additional images and information.