Auction 61 AUCTION 61: RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 2
By HELIOS
Sunday, Apr 6, 12:00 PM
HELIOS AUCTIONS 1050 Second Avenue Gallery # 52 New York, NY 10022 USA, United States
An extremely varied selection of paper-related items, including 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle Antique Incunabula Liber Chronicarum Hartmann Schedel, 1764 Bible by Anthony Purver Quaker Antique 2 Two-folio volumes, 1531 Dante Alighieri Post-Incunabula l'Amoroso Convivio in Italian, among many other interesting subjects.
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LOT 13:

1539 PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY ON MEDICINE OF BEASTS CATTLE & BIRDS ANTIQUE 16TH CENT.

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1539 PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY ON MEDICINE OF BEASTS CATTLE & BIRDS ANTIQUE 16TH CENT.

Sextus Placitus

Contenta in hoc opere

Sextus philosophus Platonicus de medicina animalium bestiarum, pecorum, et avium.

Cum scholiis

Gabrielis Humelbergii [1490-1544]

Ravenspurgensis medici

omnia iam primo aedita.

(Platonic philosopher on the medicine of beasts, cattle, and birds)

[Zurich, Christoph Froschauer]; 1539

Size 5 3/4 by 8 1/3"

122 pp., 4 leaves.

Original blind-stamped leather binding with later ties

Binding worn, with damaged corners

- VD16 P 3139. Durling 3672 . Wellcome 5072. Vischer C 283. -

First edition, edited and commented on by Gabriel Hummelberg (ca. 1490-1544).

Slightly dampstained in the first third, otherwise a mostly clean copy

Text in Latin

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