Important medical work

CELSUS, A(ULUS) CORN(ELIUS). De medicina libri octo, ex recognitione Joh. Antonidae vander Linden... Editio secunda. Lugduni Batavorum (apud Salomonem Wagenaer) 1665.

12:o. (12, including extra engraved title), (1)-592, (8) pp. Engraved extra title.
Contemporary vellum, damaged inner doublures. Loose in lower hinge. Partly dampstained in lower outer corner and outer margin.

Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC - c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is a primary source on diet, pharmacy, surgery and related fields, and it is one of the best sources concerning medical knowledge in the Roman world. The lost portions of his encyclopedia likely included volumes on agriculture, law, rhetoric, and military arts. (Wikipedia.)
Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.

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