Il medico

Estimate value
$ 500 – 1 000
Auction dateClassic
27.06.2024 00:00UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
ID 1236276
Lot 46 | Il medico
ROSACCIO, Giuseppe (c.1530-c.1620). Il medico ... Nel quale con brevita & modo facile si tratta della vertu de' Sali cauati dalle Piante Medicinali. Venice: Pietro Farri, 1621.

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).
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
Preview
13.06.2024 – 27.06.2024
Phone +44 (0)20 7839 9060
Email
Buyer Premium see on Website
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase

More from Creator

Il medico
Il medico
$100

Related terms