[MEDICINE]. LAGUNA, Andrés (1499-1559). Annotationes in Dios...

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[MEDICINE]. LAGUNA, Andrés (1499-1559). Annotationes in Dioscoridem Anazarbeum. Lyon: Rouillé, 1554 [WITH:] CELSUS, Cornelius (1st century AD). De re medica. Padua: Gallassi, 1563.
An interesting group of two classics of medicine and pharmacology, representative of the rediscovery and transmission of ancient medical knowledge during the Renaissance.

LAGUNA. 16mo (115 × 70 mm). Printer's device on the title-page, engraved initials. Contemporary limp vellum (slightly detached). [WITH:] CELSUS. 8vo (150 × 100 mm). Lacking the final leaf with the colophon. Late eighteenth-century boards, spine label lettered with title, blue-speckled edges. Provenance: numerous early inscriptions on the title-page, one signed Jhoan. Rhodius Danus and dated April 1626. (2)