ALPINI (Prospero). De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium libri septem. In quibus ars tota Hippocratica prædicendi in aegrotis varios morborum evantus, cum ex veterum medicorum dogmatibus... nova methodo elucescit. Cum Praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave... supplevit citata Hippocratis loca accuravit Hieron. Dav. Gaubius, M. D. ET CH. L. Frankfurt, Fleischer, 1754. In-4, marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (Binding of the period). 10 ff. (including frontispiece portrait and title), 559 pp. 19 ff. index. One of several editions published in the 18th century. The first edition of Alpini's prognostic manual appeared in 1601. A fine copy, with a few brown spots. Blake p. 12.