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LEONICENO (NICCOLO)
De serpentibus opus singulare ac exactissimum

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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LEONICENO (NICCOLO)

De serpentibus opus singulare ac exactissimum, Roman and greek types, woodcut printer's device on colophon [Adams L501], [25 November 1518]; Medici romani, Nicolai Leoniceni discipuli, Anti-sophista, very light marginal dampstains [not in Adams], [1519], [colophon: Bologna, Giovanni Antonio de' Benedetti the younger]; HUTTEN (ULRICH VON) De guaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus, FIRST EDITION, title-page with large coat of arms of Cardinal Albrecht, full-page woodcut illustration of the author on final leaf [Adams H1221; Durling 2509], [Mainz, Johann Schoeffer, April 1519], 3 works in 1 vol., nineteenth century half calf, gilt morocco spine labels, patterned endpapers, 4to (200 x 140mm.),

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Includes the first collected edition of Leoniceno's treatises on snakes, reptiles and their venoms. The second work is devoted to the study of Galenic medicine, Leonicino having been instrumental in the revival of interest in Galen in the late fifteenth century. He also wrote a treatise on syphilis, and Ulrich von Hutten's treatise is devoted to the subject, and his suggested cure, the American-Indian remedy "guaiacum wood", said to be have been discovered on the Island of Cuba.

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