P. Alpini De medicina Aegyptiorum libri quatuor, & Jacobi Bontii De medicina Indorum. Original edition.
Paris: Gulielmi Pelé, & Joannem Duval, 1646. Contemp. limp vellum with early title in calligraphic script to spine (lightly waterstained). 2 parts in 1 vol. with separate titles, the main printed in red and black with woodcut device, floriated initials and decorative head- and tailpieces, 2 full-page woodcuts and other text illustrations.
[14]pp; 150 numbered leaves; [50pp. index]; [2pp.]; 39 numbered leaves; [2pp.]
Partially browned, a few leaves misnumbered, front pastedown wormed, scattered spotting and foxing, early inscription at rear.
Alpini, an Italian physician and botanist, graduated from Padua and traveled through Greece, Crete, and Egypt from 1580 to 1583. Following his travels, he returned to Padua where he remained as professor of botany and director of the botanical garden until his death. This work was one of several books that resulted from his travels and is a comprehensive account of medicine as it was practiced in Egypt.
While in Egypt Alpini studied its plant life ; his work, De plantis Aegypti liber, includes over seventy full-page illustrations of Egyptian plants, among them the earliest representations of the coffee and cotton plants. Also included in this work is Alpini’s, De balsam, which sets forth, in the form of a dialogue between an Egyptian and a Hebrew physician, the merits and uses of balsam.
OCLC Number: 863430430, for the 1645 edition, the e year before.
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TitelbeschreibungDe Medicina Aegyptiorvm Libri Quatuor, et ... De Medicina Indorum. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd. 1 Titel in Rot u. Schwarz mit Holzschnitt-Vignette, -Initialen, Kopf- u. Schlussvignetten, 2 Holzschnitttafeln u. -Textillustr. Paris, G. Pele & J. Duval, 1646. 7 Bl., 150 S., 26 Bl., 39 S., 1 Bl. Gr.-8°. Pgt. d. Zt. mit hs. kalligr. RTitel (leicht wasserfleckig).
Annotation Deutsch Prosper Alpini (1553-1617), Arzt und Botaniker, war 1580 Arzt in Kairo, ab 1584 Marine-Arzt auf der Flotte des Andrea Doria. Später Professor der Botanik und Direktor des Botanischen Gartens in Padua. - Tls. gebräunt, braun- u. stockfleckig, vord. Innendeckel mit Wurmspur, einige Bl. falsch paginiert, hint. fl. Vorsatz mit Marginalie. Item #51-3675
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