ALPINUS (Prosper). DE PRAESAGIENDA VITA ET MORTE AEGROTANTIUM LIBRI SEPTEM. Francofurti & Lipsiae, in Officina Fleischeriana, 1754. Quarter-sized paperbacked boards, paper title label on spine (contemporary binding); portrait-frontispiece, (7) ff. including title in 2 colours, 559 pp., (42) pp. index. Boards soiled and rubbed, paper missing from spine, foxing on index pages. NEW EDITION of this great classic on the art of "prognosis", i.e. "medical diagnosis". It is adorned with a BEAUTIFUL steel-engraved PORTRAIT of the author on the frontispiece, as well as with lettering and a culs-de-lampe. An untrimmed copy, preserved in its original hardback. ¶ Garrison & Morton, 2194, 1601 edition: "A classical work on prognosis".