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G. de Taregua summa diversarum questionum medicinalium.

Gabriel de Tarrega

...Dated 10 February [and after 10 November], 1520. Extremely rare first edition of the first substantial book printed in Bordeaux, known only in a handful of copies. Gabriel Tarrega was a native of Catalonia, a Jew converted to Christianity...

Summula Jacobi de Partibus per alphabetu[m] super plurimis remedijs ex ipsius Mesue libris excerptis.

Jacques Desparts

...Extremely rare and beautifully illustrated, this is an alphabetical index of maladies, with their remedies excerpted from Mesue’s De simplicibus, or Antidotarium, by the physician Jacques Desparts. This ‘ready-reckoner’ was clearly...

Ordo et ordinis ratio in legendis hippocratis et Galeni libris/ per Iacobum Syluium medicum.

Jacques Dubois

...An excellent example of a medical sammelband, typical of the Parisian curriculum in the mid-sixteenth century, comprising an almost complete collection of Sylvius’s commentaries on Hippocrates and Galen and his recension of Mesue’s work...

Iosephi Scaligeri Iuli Cæsaris f. opus de emendatione temporum, castigatius et multis partibus auctius, ut novum videri possit. Item veterum Græcorum fragmenta selecta, quibus loci aliquot obscurissimi chronologiæ sacræ et bibliorum illustrantur, cum notis eiusdem Scaligeri.

Joseph Justus Scaliger

...Second edition (Leiden, 1598) of Joseph Justus Scaliger's Opus novum de emendatione temporum, first published in 1583. Scaliger was a controversial French-born humanist scholar especially influential in the fields of textual criticism...

Opticæ thesavrvs: Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nuncprimùm editi, eivsdem liber de crepvscvlis & nubium ascensionibus, iten Vitellonis Thvringopoloni libri x, omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati & aucti, adiectis etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs, a Federico Risnero.

Alhazen

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Witelo

...First edition of a fundamental work on optics, and Alhazen’s work. Known as the father of optics, Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) is considered the greatest Muslim physicist and one of the great scientists of the Middle Ages unmatched in his field...

The Breviarie of Health: Wherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses and diseases, the which may be in Man or Woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning Phisicke and Chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrewe Boorde, Doctor of Physicke: an English man.

Andrew Boorde

...Andrew Boorde's Breviary of Health, composed in 1542 and first published in 1547, is the first medical manual written in English by a physician. Boorde, who was also a cleric and a pioneering travel writer, presents in most of the 384 + 73...

Annali della repubblica di Genova del secolo decimo sesto / descritti da Filippo Casoni.

Filippo Casoni

...First edition of a history of the republic of Genoa in the sixteenth century. It consists of ten books of annals. Subjects discussed include the Genoese conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, especially over Corsica, and the Habsburg-Ottoman...

Avicennae arabis medicorum ob succinctam breuitatis copiā, facile principis Quarta fen, primi: de vniuersali ratione medēdi, interprete Iacob Mātino Medico Hebręo.

Avicenna

...A rare edition of a new translation by Jacob Mantino of Book I, fen 4 of Avicenna's Canon, first published in Venice in 1530. Jacob Mantino was a Spanish Jewish physician active in Venice, and published this translation (as a prelude...