Celse. - A. Corn. Celsi De medicina libri octo - 1766

Celsus. A. Corn. Celsi De medicina libri octo. Lipsiae [Leipzig], Caspari Fritsch, 1766, l-777 pp. (26) ff [index] A volume in octavo (200x120 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, red morocco title piece, red edges (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards otherwise fine overall condition. Foxing scattered Latin edition of the medical treatise by Celsus, the Roman encyclopedist of the 1st century, whose eight books devoted to medicine constitute one of the great medical texts preserved from Antiquity. The work covers the history of medicine, diseases and their symptoms, treatments, pharmacology, surgery and diseases of the bones. This edition was edited by Carl Christian Krause and includes a substantial critical apparatus, with textual variants, annotations and comments by scholars such as Johannes Antonides van der Linden, Robert Constantin, Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon and Giovanni Battista Morgagni.

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