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GALENUS, CLAUDIUS.
Librorum pars prima[-quinta].
Greek text, edited by
Andrea Torresani and Giovanni Battista Opizzoni. [4], 24, 180 [i. e,. 181], [1], 108; [4], 184,
160 [
i. e,. 106]; [4], 106, 155, [1]; [4], 113, [1], 74, 3 [i. e., 6, 55 [i. e., 57], [1]; [4], 327 [i. e.,
346], [6]
leaves, including the integral blanks, with gathering 3A bound between 3[tau]8
and 3[upsilon]1 in Volume 5. 5 volumes. Folio, 314-318x218-224 mm, 20th-century
brown morocco blind-tooled in period style by Bernard Middleton; occasional light mar-
ginal dampstaining, few early marginalia in Greek, Volume 2 with stain at top of a2, repair
in blank gutter of n1, and wormhole through last several leaves slightly affecting text.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April-August 1525)
[25,000/35,000]
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GALEN
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“
This
is the most substantial Greek edition published by Aldus’s father- and brothers-in-law in the
fourteen years between Aldus’s death and the closing of the Press in 1529. In its huge physical
scope it rivals the Aristotle as a major piece of Greek printing and is in fact the lengthiest
Aldine Greek work published. These volumes made available Galen’s vast corpus of medical
writings in the original Greek”—Fletcher, In Praise of Aldus Manutius, page 64. Renouard,
page 101(3); New UCLA 231, 232, 233, 235, 236; Durling 1748; Grolier/Norman 5B;
Printing and the Mind of Man 33.
