SELVATICO, Giovanni Battista. De compositione et usu Theriacae Libri Duo. [Heidelberg], Hyeronimus Commelin, 1597.
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Small 8vo, mm. 175x100; Contemporary full vellum binding, inside covers many manuscripted notes in Latin, title written and label of extinct library on the spine; pp. 635, i.e. 637, 3 bl. Nice printer’s device on titlepage. Manuscript signature of belonging and stamp of extinct library.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Extensive and erudite treatise on Teriaca, the universal remedy for most of the ills of the body sets out in detail its composition, its pharmacological properties of various ingredients, its therapeutic virtues and of its packaging mode.
The Milanese doctor Giovanni Battista Selvatico, son of John Peter, was a professor at the University of Pavia and a member of the College of Physicians in Milan: highly respected for his classic and humanistic scholarship and his deep knowledge of the texts of Galen, he studied relations between the Greek and Arab medical science.
De Renzi, III, p. 469; Dezeimeris, IV, p. 169; Durling, n. 4182; Hirsch, V, p. 272.
Genuine copy with slight sign of dampstain and brownings.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Extensive and erudite treatise on Teriaca, the universal remedy for most of the ills of the body sets out in detail its composition, its pharmacological properties of various ingredients, its therapeutic virtues and of its packaging mode.
The Milanese doctor Giovanni Battista Selvatico, son of John Peter, was a professor at the University of Pavia and a member of the College of Physicians in Milan: highly respected for his classic and humanistic scholarship and his deep knowledge of the texts of Galen, he studied relations between the Greek and Arab medical science.
De Renzi, III, p. 469; Dezeimeris, IV, p. 169; Durling, n. 4182; Hirsch, V, p. 272.
Genuine copy with slight sign of dampstain and brownings.
