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DE FEBRIBUS Opus sane aureum ... in quo trio sectarum clarissimi medici habentur, qui de hac re egerunt; nempe Graeci, Arabes, atque Latini. [Edited by Gasparo Bindoni]. Venice, Gratioso Perchacino for Gasparo Bindoni, 1576 [colophon 1575]. Folio, 1l + 1t + 1„ + 2 + 4 (index) + 627 + 1„ + 1„l, with woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials at the beginning of each author's section, printed in double columns; splendidly bound in contemporary green dyed vellum, 3-line outer border of plain v ellum (the green removed by a gouge), gilt scroll-work frame, 3-line inner border, enclosing the large gilt arms of Ferdinand Hofman, Freiherr zu Grevenstein, spine gilt decorated with plain vellum lines forming compartments, the top compartment entirely plain vellum and lettered in ink, with a numeral 7 superimposed later, and an old paper label below, yapp edges, remains of ties, edges sprinkled blue and red. First edition of this compilation (it was re-issued in Venice in 1594 with name of Fernel, probably spuriously attached). The Bindoni were a prominent family of sixteenth century Venetian printers; this is the only work issued under the sole editorship of Gaspar Bindoni. It is an anthology of writings on fevers by twenty-five Greek, Arab and Latin authors, the last including Latin writers of the Middle Ages. The Arabic writers are Avicenna, Averroes, Isaac, Serapion, Haly Abbas and Johannes Actuarius. The Latin authors include Constantinus Africanus and Arnald of Villanova. Adams F400; Bird 639 (imperfect); Bruni Celli 2844; Durling 1105; Garrison-Morton 2193; Parkinson & Lumb 812; Wellcome 6868., Colophon dated 1575. |
