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Tuesday 20 June 2023 e Wednesday 21 June 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Ruini, Carlo

Anatomy of the horse, disease and its remedies, 1618

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€ 1.500 - 2.000

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Information

Venice, Fioravante Prati, 1618. In-folio, title page of the first volume in red and black, (2cc), 1-247pp, (10cc); (1c),1-300, (9cc), 1cb., coeval full vellum binding, handwritten title on spine. Second volume with its own title page. Numerous woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials and tailpieces. On the title pages printer's brand (Three trees in a meadow, each with a bird on top, within an illustrated frame).

Specialist Notes

Fourth edition, published twenty years after the first (Bologna, 1598) of one of the most remarkable works of descriptive anatomy of the Renaissance and the first modern veterinary treatise.
Graesse VI, 191; Wellcome 5625; Norman Library 1858 (1598 edition).