187 - Thorer, Alban. *De Re Medica*. Basel, Cratander, 1528. A rare first edition of the first collection of texts on pharmacology and nutrition from antiquity

Thorer, Alban. *De Re Medica*. Basel, Cratander, 1528. A rare first edition of the first collection of texts on pharmacology and nutrition from antiquity Thorer, Alban. *De Re Medica*. Basel, Cratander, 1528. Folio (300 x 198 mm); [12], 125, [1] leaves. Printer’s mark on the title page; two beautiful ornamental frames wood-engraved by Jacob Faber after a design by Hans Holbein; numerous decorated and filled initials (stamp on the title page; some leaves are discolored.) 17th-century full-parchment binding, smooth spine with handwritten title, polychrome spray-painted edges (stain on the upper cover). Known as the Albani Torini collection after its publisher—a professor of medicine in Basel who edited and translated several classical medical authors—this volume contains one of the earliest collections of those medical writers and physicians whose works spanned the period from the early Greeks to the Middle Ages. The beautiful woodcut borders and numerous initials add a unique appeal to this work, which appears to be relatively unknown among collectors, bibliographers, and medical historians. First edition of the first collection of ancient authors on pharmacology and nutrition