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386 - Diet.- Averroeana: being a transcript of several letters from Averroes an Arabian philosopher at Corduba in Spain, to Metrodorus a young Grecian nobleman...in the years 1149, and 1150. Also several letters from Pythagoras to the King of India..., first edition, very narrow area of paper adhesion to inner margin of title, obscuring the first (or occasionally first two) letter(s) on some lines, trimmed at head, touching headlines and pagination, foxed, lightly browned, new endpapers, antique style speckled calf, spine gilt and with leather label, spine little faded, [Krivatsy 495; Wing A4271; ESTC R1981], 12mo, Printed and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-Street, 1695.
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Diet.- Averroeana: being a transcript of several letters from Averroes an Arabian philosopher at Corduba in Spain, to Metrodorus a young Grecian nobleman...in the years 1149, and 1150. Also several letters from Pythagoras to the King of India..., first edition, very narrow area of paper adhesion to inner margin of title, obscuring the first (or occasionally first two) letter(s) on some lines, trimmed at head, touching headlines and pagination, foxed, lightly browned, new endpapers, antique style speckled calf, spine gilt and with leather label, spine little faded, [Krivatsy 495; Wing A4271; ESTC R1981], 12mo, Printed and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-Street, 1695. *** Rare at auction (the last offered being the Macclesfield copy in 2008). The letters were purportedly discovered in Andalusia by a Monsieur Grinau, but are in fact spurious. With much on diet (including vegetarianism, salt, milk, sugar, and herbs) and medical matters (including consumption, pregnancy, swollen breasts, and flatulence), and also Pythagoras on the mystical power of numbers.
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