Celsi a C (4 results)

Legatura editoriale. Condition: buono. Moroni Celsi G. (illustrator). Un vol. in 8° (19,5 x 26,5); legatura editoriale plastificata, con illustrazione a colori applicata in copertina e protetta da plastica trasparente; pp. 122, (4); illustrazioni di G. Moroni Celsi a colori fuori testo; disegno di bambino a lapis alla sguardia bianca, minimi segni del tempo, è buon esemplare.

pp. 431. 12mo. Half calf, marbled boards. Text in Latin. Nice little book,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Two volumes bound in one. lxxii, 598 (misnumbered 998), (31), (2), 115, (3) pp. With frontis portrait of Celsus and title vignette. Early quarter calf over marbled boards, Good, heavy wear, boards nearly detached, edges showing, an early signature at title page obscured. Bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid, noted American zoologist at front paste down. "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. Garrison and Morton, 20, Blake, NLM, pp. 82, 415; Wellcome, II, p.319, See also Waller, 1855. Quintus Serenius Sammonicus (d. 211) was physician to the Emperor Severus and was put to death by Caracalla. Allbutt called him 'a man of some attainments'. 'He left a library of 62,000 volumes to his son Quintus, to whom this 'De medicina' has also been attributed. See Osler 5433." ( references from Jeff Weber Rare Books). Size: Thick 12mo. Book.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très Bon État. Paris, Librairie Médicale de Compère Jeune, de l'Imprimerie d'Ad Moëssard. Reliure d'époque dos lisse orné de fleurons à motifs floraux, plats cartonnés bleus. Titre avec vignette gravée, xij p, 536p. Size: In8.