[16th century book] PAUL D'ÉGINE. Pauli Aeginetae... - Lot 195 - Kâ-Mondo

[16th century book] PAUL D'ÉGINE. Pauli Aeginetae Medici insignis opus divinum, quo vir ille vastissimum totius artis oceanum, Laconica brevitate, sensibus argutis, merisque aphorismis in epitonem redegit. Albano Torino Vitodurensi interprets. Basilae, Andreas Cratander and Johannes Bebel, 1532. Two works in one small volume in-folio, [12] f., 513 p., [1] f.; [2]-29-[5] f., old vellum, smooth spine, author in ink on the spine (spine faded, tears repaired on the top cover, traces of shoelaces, sporadic browning and freckling, sporadic light wetting). First Latin edition by Albano Torino of Paul of Aegina's treatise on medicine, divided into seven books or treatises (the art of maintaining health; fevers; internal ailments; external diseases; wounds, bites, venoms and poisons; surgery; simple and compound medicines), summarizing all medical knowledge since Hippocrates. Book VI, "De chirurgia" is here bound, preceded by its title page at the same address and date. Without a doubt the most precise operating manuals known in antiquity, this treatise describes several methods of facial surgery, making it one of the very first books on plastic surgery. Antiquarian ex-libris of two doctors with the title: Raymond Roger and Jean Avallanet (?). Some old annotations in the margins. (Durling 3566 and 3549; USTC 604568 for the first one).