1690 - Curio, J.

Curio, J. On the Preservation of Good Health, a treatise from the School of Salerno, addressed to the King of England, with most useful explanations, recently revised and expanded by John Curio, son of Arnold of Novi, physician and philosopher of old. Antwerp, printed by Ioannes Bellerus, 1557. (xxiv), 276 p. Woodcut printer’s mark, bound in calf. Damaged spine, repaired; some staining. Very rare edition; not listed in Waller, B.M.N., Blocker, or Cole; Choulant mentions on p. 274 the 1557 Antwerp edition published by J. Withagius! Not listed in Adams, Durling, or Wellcome. Heirs no. 45, Venice 1587 edition: One of the many editions of this medical handbook containing the commentaries of Arnoldus de Villanova and edited by Curio, a German physician. Some annotations in an old hand. - 24.