Pedro Miguel de Heredia. Operum Medicinalium.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $75

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author

(MEDICINE)

printer

Laurentius Arnaud and Petrus Borde

Place

Lyon

Publication

1673

Description

Second edition. Four volumes bound in two. Engraved frontispiece portrait of author opposite initial title.

summary

The collected works of an accomplished Spanish physician and modern Galenist, De Heredia (1579-1655) is noted for having rejecting the theory of spontaneous generation, which would not be scientifically disproved by Pasteur for another two hundred years.

Foxed. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, rubbed and worn. Folio.

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