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FIRST EDITION OF DODOENS' MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS DODOENS, REMBERT. 1517-1585. Medicinalium Observationum Exampla rara, recognita & aucta. Cologne: M. Cholinus, 1581. image 1
FIRST EDITION OF DODOENS' MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS DODOENS, REMBERT. 1517-1585. Medicinalium Observationum Exampla rara, recognita & aucta. Cologne: M. Cholinus, 1581. image 2
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FIRST EDITION OF DODOENS' MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS
DODOENS, REMBERT. 1517-1585.
Medicinalium Observationum Exampla rara, recognita & aucta. Cologne: M. Cholinus, 1581.

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FIRST EDITION OF DODOENS' MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS

DODOENS, REMBERT. 1517-1585. Medicinalium Observationum Exampla rara, recognita & aucta. Cologne: M. Cholinus, 1581.
8vo (157 x 95 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, edges stained blue, worn, some internal spotting and browning.
Provenance: Stephan Stalsofry(?) (ex libris and ex dono inscriptions on pastedown and flyleaf); early inscription on flyleaf ("Artem guamlibet incundam facit experiential").

FIRST EDITION by Rembert Dodoens, foremost botanist of his day, and court physician for Emperor Maximilian II and later Rudolph II. The work begins with Dodoens' medical observations, which are followed by extracts and works by other authors to which Dodoens has added annotations: Antonio Benvieni, "De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis"; Valasco de Tarenta and Alessandro Benedetti, "Medicialum observationum"; Mathias cornax, Achilles P. Gasser and Gilles de Hertoghe, "Historiae gestationis foetus mortui in utero." The final work, an original essay by Dodoens on physiology, "Physiologices medicinae partis, tabulae expeditae," has a separate title-page (but with continuous pagination and register). NLM\Durling 1179; Wellcome I, 1822.

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