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FUCHS, Leonhart.

Paradoxorum medicinae libri tres.

Paris: Carole Guillard, 1555.

3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002326

8vo (164 x 108 mm). [20], 238 ff. Text in Greek and Latin. Modern vellum, spine titled in script. Text with only little marginal browning or soiling, occasional minor light spotting, first 3 leaves including title cleaned, a few neat annotation in contemporary hand to first pages. Provenance: illegible ownership inscription on title-page. A fine copy. ----

Adams F 1125; NLM/Durling 1716; Hirsch/H. II, 638; vgl. Bird 956, Haeser II, 17, Osler 2689, STC 190, Waller 3298, Wellcome I, 2433. - Very rare third, and considerably revised and enlarged, edition of Fuch's Errata recentiorum medicorum of 1530 against Arabian medicine, first printed under the title Paradoxorum in 1535. "As in the original work, the three books concern questions of medical botany, therapeutics, and anatomy" (Durling).

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