1561 FIOROVANTI ALCHEMISTRY MEDICAL ILLUSTRATED antique Secreti medicinali

Fioravanti, Leonardo (1517-1588)
(noted doctor,surgeon and alchemist active in Italy in 16th century)

Secreti medicinali, divisi in tre libri...

Venice, Avanzo ; 1561.

With 6 text woodcuts

 16 , 168 (of 183) lvs.

The rare first edition

- Adams F 483 with a different title, "Capricci medicinali." -

The author was "one of the few followers of Paracelsus in Italy" (Hirsch-H. II, 523).

- The numbered leaves 24, 50-55, 104, 177-183 are missing.

Re-bound with original limp vellum binding, manuscript title to the spine, clean interior

Size about 4 by 6 inches

Text in Italian
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