ID 1236276
Lot 46 | Il medico
Estimate value
$ 500 – 1 000
First edition of an unusual medical treatise by the eccentric cosmologist and cartographer Giuseppe Rosaccio. Its three books address astrological medicine, specific maladies and their remedies, and the distillation of pharmaceuticals from plants—each with its own title page within an engraved border. The author, Rosaccio, was a Venetian physician, astronomer, and mapmaker noted for his edition of Ptolemy and his speculative world geography entitled Discorso ... della Nobilita e Eccellenza della Terra rispetto à Cieli. Houzeau and Lancaster 5886; Krivatsy 9938; Wellcome 5565.
Quarto (224 x 160mm). Main title and two part titles in engraved borders, woodcut diagrams of distillation apparatus in third part (spotting, some dampstaining around the edges). Contemporary limp vellum wrapper with ties (spine worn with losses, apart from text block).
| Artist: | Giuseppe Rosaccio (1530 - 1620) |
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| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Medicine & science, Printed books |
| Artist: | Giuseppe Rosaccio (1530 - 1620) |
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| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Medicine & science, Printed books |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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