Lot no. 33
HIPPOCRATE. Τα ευρισκομενα... Opera omnia quæ extant, in VIII sectiones ex Erotiani mente distributa. Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and Johann Aubry, 1595. 8 parts in 2 volumes in-folio, fawn calf, fillet in frame and central medallion in cold, spine decorated, edges waxed (Period binding). An important collective edition of the works of Hippocrates, in Greek and Latin, published by Anuce Foës (1528-1595), a physician and humanist from Metz. According to Graesse, it is "an unquestionably superior work to all those that preceded and followed it". Worn bindings with missing headpieces and split hinges, one cover detached, foxing, margins reinforced on 2 ff. Graesse, III, 281 - Durling, n°2319 - Wellcome, n°3176 - Adams, H-566.
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