CELSUS, Aulus Cornelius (ca. 25 B.C.-ca. A.D. 50). Of Medicine. In eight books . Translated by James Grieve, M.D. London: D. Wilson & T. Durham, 1756. 8 o (209 x 125 mm). (Occasional light pale foxing). Contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked, preserving original spine label, a couple of pale spots on covers). THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the oldest Western work on medicine after the Hippocratic corpus. The text was almost unknown in the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in the fifteenth century when several early manuscripts came to light.
CELSUS, Aulus Cornelius (ca. 25 B.C.-ca. A.D. 50). Of Medicine. In eight books . Translated by James Grieve, M.D. London: D. Wilson & T. Durham, 1756. 8 o (209 x 125 mm). (Occasional light pale foxing). Contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked, preserving original spine label, a couple of pale spots on covers). THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the oldest Western work on medicine after the Hippocratic corpus. The text was almost unknown in the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in the fifteenth century when several early manuscripts came to light.
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