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Kessinger Publishing, 2009-06-13. paperback. Used:Good.

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Amsterdam: Ex officina Wetsteniana, 1709. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to (200 x 155mm). [32, index], 728pp. Signatures: 1star-4star(4), A-Z(4), Aa-Zz(4), Aaa-Zzz(4), Aaaa-Yyyy(4). Full-page engraved half-title of scene of busy hospital room, with patients reclining in beds in background, and ailing patient treated by group of physicians with herbs and bottled medicines. Title printed in red and black. Preface by Swiss editor and physician Johann Conrad Amman (1669-1724). Period half vellum, blind stamped with arabesque to covers, backed in calf of gilt-stamped spine with red morocco lettering label: AURELIANI * DE MORBIS; (binding slightly rubbed with few spots, internally clean and complete). Though Caelius Aurelius was a Latin translator of ancient Greek medical manuscripts, philologists often discuss his work as if he was the original author. He was born in Sicca, Numidia (now in Algeria) with a dubious start, but almost certainly flourished as a Greco-Roman physician in the mid-fifth… Read More