BAVIERA, BAVERIO (ca.1405-1480)
Consilia medica.
In folio (cm 30), attractive CONTEMPORARY BLINDSTAMPED RED GOATSKIN BINDING over wooden boards (slightly different), carefully rebacked, spine renewed in style. All the book with CAPITALS RUBRICATED IN RED AND BLUE, FIRST INITIAL IN RED AND GOLD ON A BLUE GROUND WITH GREEN AND GOLD FOLIATE EXTENSIONS, AND A COAT-OF-ARMS PAINTED BENEATH. Some marginal waterstain mostly to bottom margin of first and last leaves, few marginal worming at last leale too, an ink spot at inner margin of last 2 leaves, otherwise a fresh and wide copy. Stamps on first and last leaf. Ff. (2), CLIX, missing last blank leaf. The words "filiorum sumptibus" in the colophon scored out. FIRST EDITION of this rare work on medicine and dietetics, published by his sons. Goff B283; HC 271 ; Klebs 163.1; BMC VI 824; BSB-Ink B-242; GW 3739.
[colophon:] Bologna, Franciscus de Benedictis, filiorum sumptibus, 5. Nov. 1489
€ 25.000,00
