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ALDINE EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST ROMAN MEDICAL WORKS
CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50 C.E.
In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelii Celsi medicinae libri VIII ... Quinti Sereni liber de medicina. Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1528.

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ALDINE EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST ROMAN MEDICAL WORKS

CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50 C.E. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelii Celsi medicinae libri VIII ... Quinti Sereni liber de medicina. Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1528.
8vo (214 x 134 mm). Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title-page and verso of colophon. Modern calf antique, some minor soiling and a few repairs to blank edges of corners of first few leaves, lacking t4 blank (with another blank leaf inserted).

FIRST ALDINE EDITION of one of the earliest Roman medical works, the only edition from the Aldine press, containing the poem "De mediana" by Quintus Serenus. The first edition, published in Florence in 1478, was among the first printed medical texts. Adams C-1241; Ahmanson-Murphy 250; NLM\Durling 908; Heirs of Hippocrates 21; Norman 428; Renouard 105:1; Wellcome I, 1397.

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