573 - Medicine - Aegineta, Paulus. Totivs Rei Medicae Libri VII. Prepared for Treatment, and Encompassing the Entire Art in a Brief Summary. 2 parts in 1 volume. With 3 (2 repeated) printer’s marks. Basel, Herwagen, 1556. 32 (last 2 blank), 358, (2); 82, (2 blank) pp. 34 x 23 cm. Period pigskin binding over wooden boards, monogrammed and dated “I. K. N. 1560" with 2 brass clasps (covers worm-eaten, edges chipped, scuffed, and stained in places).

Medicine - Aegineta, Paulus. Totivs Rei Medicae Libri VII. Prepared for Treatment, and Encompassing the Entire Art in a Brief Summary. 2 parts in 1 volume. With 3 (2 repeated) printer’s marks. Basel, Herwagen, 1556. 32 (last 2 blank), 358, (2); 82, (2 blank) pp. 34 x 23 cm. Period pigskin binding over wooden boards, monogrammed and dated “I. K. N. 1560" with 2 brass clasps (covers worm-eaten, edges chipped, scuffed, and stained in places). First edition of Cornarius’s translation. - Durling 3561: "Original edition of the third complete translation." - Choulant 142 - Hirsch IV, 533. - Paulus of Aegina, known as Paulus Aeginata after his birthplace, was respected even by Arab physicians as a doctor and obstetrician (Choulant). - Title page bears the owner’s inscription “Johann Crato,” presumably Johann Crato von Crafftheim (1519–1585), personal physician to Emperor Ferdinand and Emperor Maximilian II (see NDB III, 402f) and editor of Montanus’s *Consultationes medica* (1583). - The first few pages have a few wormholes, a library stamp, and a handwritten ownership note on the title page; in places, there is a narrow water-stain margin, with occasional contemporary underlining and marginal notes. *