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Lot 55
LEONICENO, Niccolò (1428-1524). Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
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LEONICENO, Niccolò (1428-1524). Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
Super-chancery 4° (204 x 153mm). Collation: a-c8 d4(4+1) (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r.v author's dedication to Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, a3r-d4r text, d4r colophon, d4v blank, d4+1r.v errata). 29 leaves, unfoliated. Types: 8:87R; 7:114(87)Gk. 33 lines, printed marginalia, initial spaces with guide letters. (Occasional light spotting and staining.) 18th-century vellum with title and author's name in gilt on sides (light staining). Provenance: Est Meÿ Jo: Bapt: Can -l? (16th-century inscription on title) — [Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's 3 May 1995, lot 11] — [Giazotto Collection, Christie's Rome,16 June 1999, lot 4] — Livio Ambrogio (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest treatises on syphilis by one of the outstanding Greek scholars of his age. Leoniceno taught medicine at the University of Ferrara and was one of the editors of the Aldine Aristotle. He was rated alongside Guillaume Cop and Linacre by Erasmus as one of the humanists to revive medical studies. 'His tract on syphilis cited numerous errors committed by the Arabists in the identification and naming of diseases, and attempted to prove that syphilis, although it had appeared recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease' (Norman). HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 14; Laurenziana 12; Sansoviniana 18; Renouard Alde, 14:12; Goff L-165.
Super-chancery 4° (204 x 153mm). Collation: a-c8 d4(4+1) (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r.v author's dedication to Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, a3r-d4r text, d4r colophon, d4v blank, d4+1r.v errata). 29 leaves, unfoliated. Types: 8:87R; 7:114(87)Gk. 33 lines, printed marginalia, initial spaces with guide letters. (Occasional light spotting and staining.) 18th-century vellum with title and author's name in gilt on sides (light staining). Provenance: Est Meÿ Jo: Bapt: Can -l? (16th-century inscription on title) — [Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's 3 May 1995, lot 11] — [Giazotto Collection, Christie's Rome,16 June 1999, lot 4] — Livio Ambrogio (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest treatises on syphilis by one of the outstanding Greek scholars of his age. Leoniceno taught medicine at the University of Ferrara and was one of the editors of the Aldine Aristotle. He was rated alongside Guillaume Cop and Linacre by Erasmus as one of the humanists to revive medical studies. 'His tract on syphilis cited numerous errors committed by the Arabists in the identification and naming of diseases, and attempted to prove that syphilis, although it had appeared recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease' (Norman). HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 14; Laurenziana 12; Sansoviniana 18; Renouard Alde, 14:12; Goff L-165.
LEONICENO, Niccolò (1428-1524). Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
Super-chancery 4° (204 x 153mm). Collation: a-c8 d4(4+1) (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r.v author's dedication to Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, a3r-d4r text, d4r colophon, d4v blank, d4+1r.v errata). 29 leaves, unfoliated. Types: 8:87R; 7:114(87)Gk. 33 lines, printed marginalia, initial spaces with guide letters. (Occasional light spotting and staining.) 18th-century vellum with title and author's name in gilt on sides (light staining). Provenance: Est Meÿ Jo: Bapt: Can -l? (16th-century inscription on title) — [Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's 3 May 1995, lot 11] — [Giazotto Collection, Christie's Rome,16 June 1999, lot 4] — Livio Ambrogio (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest treatises on syphilis by one of the outstanding Greek scholars of his age. Leoniceno taught medicine at the University of Ferrara and was one of the editors of the Aldine Aristotle. He was rated alongside Guillaume Cop and Linacre by Erasmus as one of the humanists to revive medical studies. 'His tract on syphilis cited numerous errors committed by the Arabists in the identification and naming of diseases, and attempted to prove that syphilis, although it had appeared recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease' (Norman). HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 14; Laurenziana 12; Sansoviniana 18; Renouard Alde, 14:12; Goff L-165.
Super-chancery 4° (204 x 153mm). Collation: a-c8 d4(4+1) (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r.v author's dedication to Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, a3r-d4r text, d4r colophon, d4v blank, d4+1r.v errata). 29 leaves, unfoliated. Types: 8:87R; 7:114(87)Gk. 33 lines, printed marginalia, initial spaces with guide letters. (Occasional light spotting and staining.) 18th-century vellum with title and author's name in gilt on sides (light staining). Provenance: Est Meÿ Jo: Bapt: Can -l? (16th-century inscription on title) — [Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's 3 May 1995, lot 11] — [Giazotto Collection, Christie's Rome,16 June 1999, lot 4] — Livio Ambrogio (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest treatises on syphilis by one of the outstanding Greek scholars of his age. Leoniceno taught medicine at the University of Ferrara and was one of the editors of the Aldine Aristotle. He was rated alongside Guillaume Cop and Linacre by Erasmus as one of the humanists to revive medical studies. 'His tract on syphilis cited numerous errors committed by the Arabists in the identification and naming of diseases, and attempted to prove that syphilis, although it had appeared recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease' (Norman). HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 14; Laurenziana 12; Sansoviniana 18; Renouard Alde, 14:12; Goff L-165.
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