ON MEMORY AND THE SENSES
De Sensuum externorum: usu, affectionibusq[ue]; deq[ue] memoriæ cum rationis laesione vitio, medalaq[ue]...tractatus.
Venetijs [i.e. Venice].
Apud Gratiosum Perchacinu[m], 1594.
First edition.
Quarto.
39 leaves. Without terminal blank leaf. Recent calf-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription of Sybil Cooper to front blank fly-leaf, dampstaining to latter half of text-block.
A rare late sixteenth-century medical treatise on the external senses and memory by Sicilian physician Sebastian Petraficta.
OCLC records copies at just 10 locations (Basel, BL, Cambridge, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Herzog August, Leiden, NLM, Oxford, Tübingen, and Wrocław).
OCLC records copies at just 10 locations (Basel, BL, Cambridge, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Herzog August, Leiden, NLM, Oxford, Tübingen, and Wrocław).
Adams 771.
£ 950.00
Antiquates Ref: 23209