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Prosperi Alpini: De medicina Aegyptiorum libri quatuor [...]. Venice: F. de Francisois 1591. Large 4to. With 5 text woodcuts, 2 of which are full-page. Publisher's woodcut device on title. Annotated in old hand on several pages. Wear, dampstaining and some occasional worming with slight textual loss. Bound in cont. full limp vellum. Spine oxidized to dark brown. Calligraphed title on spine reads “Alpini de Medicina Aegpt”.

An important work on the practice of medicine in Egypt and one of the earliest European studies of non-Western medicine.

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Books and manuscripts, 3 September 2013

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