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CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS; and SERENUS SAMMONICUS, QUIN-
TUS.
In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelii Celsi medicinae libri
VIII . . . Quinti Sereni liber de medicina . . . accedit index in Celsum, et
Serenum.
[8], 164. 4
to, 215x129 mm, modern
1
/
2
vellum; light marginal dampstaining at
beginning and end, scattered cropped early marginalia, title soiled, with washed signature of
the D[uke] of Grafton.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, March 1528)
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
of a medical compilation written in the 1st-century A.D. and first
printed in 1478, the oldest work of its kind in the West after the Hippocratic corpus, here pub-
lished with the poem on medical remedies by Serenus Sammonicus (d. 212). Renouard, page
105(1);
New UCLA 250; Choulant, Handbuch, page 168; Durling 908; Norman 428.
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CHEVALLIER, ANTOINE-RODOLPHE.
Alphabetum Hebraicum.
Hebrew
(
printed in vocalized square and unvocalized Rashi types) and Latin text. [24] leaves. 8vo,
165
x106 mm, contemporary limp vellum; light dampstain in lower margin of a few con-
secutive leaves.
[
Geneva]: Oliva Henrici Stephani, 1566
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST CHEVALLIER EDITION
of one of several Hebrew primers with closely similar titles and
contents published by the Estienne presses, all quite scarce. The first example of Hebrew print-
ing from the Geneva press of Henri Estienne, this edition contains a greatly expanded selection
of reading matter. Chevallier (1523–72) was a French Protestant Hebraist who taught at
Cambridge, where he tutored Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. Renouard (Estienne) I,
125(3),
and II, 397; Schreiber 158; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch 82; no edi-
tion has ever been listed in American Book Prices Current.
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