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Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.
by Bierdermann, Hans
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 3201010774
- ISBN 13
- 9783201010771
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Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions, 1986. 4to. 107 pgs. Very Fine condition black leather hardcover with gilt decoration and embossment to covers and spine with die-stamped 22k gold. All edges of textblock gilt. Gold marker ribbon bound into headband, marbled endpapers. Pristine condition of the privately printed English language edition translated from the German by Rosemarie Werba. [from the Austrian Edition, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972). Included is a 23pg booklet of notes from the editors. Table of Contents: Introduction, Metaphysical Healing Theories, The Postulate of the Four Humours, The Tacuinum sanitatis, Magical and Empirical Drugs, Medicina antiqua, The Weiner Dioskurides, The Pursuance of Harmony, Bibliographical References, Facsimile Plates:Tacuinum sanitatis (Plates 1-15), Medicina Antiqua (Plates 16-24), Wiener Dioskurides (Plates 25-30). NB: the overall dimensions of this book will not accomodate flat rate envelope. ISBN 3201010774 Book# 2587.. First Edition Thus. Full-Leather. Very Fine. Illus. by Richard J. Wolfe, Daniel B. Bianchi. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- 2587
- Title
- Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.
- Author
- Bierdermann, Hans
- Illustrator
- Richard J. Wolfe, Daniel B. Bianchi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 3201010774
- ISBN 13
- 9783201010771
- Publisher
- The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions
- Place of Publication
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates, The Classics of Medicine Library, Hans Biedermann, Medicine, Medicine, Healers, Doctors, Shaman, Medicine Men, History, Medieval Healing M
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