De re medica libri octo. Acessere in primum eiusdem, Hieremiae Thriveri Brachelii commentarij doctissimi: In reliquos verò septem, Balduini Ronssei Gandensis, Reipub. Goudanae medici enarrationes by CELSUS, Aurelius Cornelius - 1592

Leiden: Ex officina Plantiniana apud Fr. Raphalengium, 1592. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (213 x 155 mm). [24], 752, [16] pp. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, 3 large woodcut illustrations in text, general index and errata at end. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, spine with paper label lettered in manuscript, original endpapers (vellum browned and dust-soiled, original ties gone). Uneven browning of pages, smaller worm track to inner gutter of a few leaves, long clean tear at lower margin of leaf KK3, occasional minor spotting, numerous light text markings in pencil to first half. A very good copy in untouched original binding. ----

Adams C-1249; Wellcome I, 1405; NLM/Durling 921; Waller 1851; Garrison-Morton 20 (for 1st ed.) -"The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about AD 30 it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus's superb literary style won him the title of Cicero medicorum. De medicina deals with diseases treated by diet and regimen and with those amenable to drugs and surgery. The manuscript... was lost during the Middle Ages and re-discovered in Milan in 1443." (Garrison-Morton, 20). Celsus' work has gone through many editions, translations, expansions, and adaptations since its first appearance in print in Florence in 1478. This is the first Plantin edition of De re Medica with the commentary of Thriverius or Jeremias De Drijvere, professor of anatomy at the University of Louvain and one of the most productive medical authors in the Low Countries. The last two books with the commentary by one of his students, Boudewijn Ronsse, who became a doctor in Gouda. - Visit our website to see more images!