Junta Thomas (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ. Frontispiece, Plates. (illustrator). 1st Edition. One Of 550 Copies Finely Printed In Red And Black By The Grabhorn Press. Greenish Beige Cloth With Spine Label Printed In Red And Black; Boars With Design In Orange And Green. In The Original Plain Brown Dust Jacket With Hand Written Short Title On Spine. Book Is Fine, No Wear Or Damage Or Marks; Dj Fine, No Wear Or Damage Or Marks Other Than Handwritten Title On Spine. Scarce In Dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 14 leaves + 497 leaves (alternate page numbering), Latin text, mostly in double column, Printer's woodcut device on title and on recto of leaf 488. With 5 full-page woodcut illustrations in the text and numerous woodcut initials, 19th century half vellum with marbled boards, rubbed and lightly soiled, light foxing in places, water staining to first 8 leaves, title page stained with 3 tears (with loss of 4 letters in 1 word), trimmed and remounted, occasional old marginalia, 2 neat marginal repairs on pages 8 and 296, otherwise copy in general good condition, enlarged issue. RARE. An important work on the thermal baths of the Greeks, Latins and Arabs. The most extensive collection of balneology texts, compiled in the 16th century, with excerpts from the works of Agricola, Avicenna, Averroes, Celsus, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, Galen, Fuchs and numerous other authors. The work discusses the baths of Baden (Switzerland), Ischia, Montecatini Pfaefers, Pozzuoli, Viterbo, Volterra, Wiesbaden, etc. The five full-page woodcuts depict a thermal bath, a bath-house in the Vosges, the pump in Bad Fideris in Prätigau, the cross section of an ancient bathhouse and a map of the Adriatic coast between Aquileia and Trieste. Bibliographic references: Adams D-167 & T-482. Cushing D88. Durling 1101. Duveen 42. Garrison & Morton 1986. Heirs of Hippocrates 126 (with illustration). Index Aureliensis 112.054. Ley, Gesner, p143, no 34. Mortimer, 'Italian 16th Century Books in the Harvard Library', 214. Osler 1902. Wellcome I, 652. #32941.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from [1553] edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 16.