A Translation Of the Eight Books Of Aul. Corn. Celsus on Medicine
London: Printed by J. Valpy, sold by Longman & Co., et. al. 1838. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #007636
Quarter brown cloth, brown pebbled cloth boards, red morocco spine label. xx, 363 pp. B&W frontis, and plates at rear. Rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spine shaken, some cracking to inner hinges and loose signatures at front. Bookplate of Edgar T. Peer to front pastedown. Offsetting from frontis to title page. Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopaedist who wrote on a number of subjects, but his descriptions on medicine were the only segments of his work to survive, and they were also some of the earliest medical works to be published after the advent of the printing press.
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