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FEYENS, THOMAS (1567-1631), De viribus imaginationis tractatus.
Authore Thoma Fieno Antverpiano; serenissimorum Belgii et Bavariae ducum quondam medico cubiculario. Editio postrema [sic]. Leiden: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1635. [First published 1608 in Louvain.] 377+[7]pp. Small octavo. 17th century green calf-backed marbled boards with red leather spine label and gilt horizontal spine rules with fleurons. Boards quite rubbed; slight tide-marking to the last gathering; minor staining; slight chipping to the right edge of the title-page; VG. Uncommon. Woodcut device to the title-page. First Elsevier edition. Willems Elsevier Bibliography #423; not in Wellcome; Waller #3021 (1657 London edition only). Weight: 4.0 ounces = 114 grams. Size: 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.8 inches = 10.7 x 6 x 2cm. Born in Antwerp, Feyens (whose father was also a physician) studied in Italy, and became personal physician for Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. In 1593 he became Professor of Medicine at Louvain and a few years later personal physician to archduke Albert of Austria. He published a number of medical books, ranging from essays on the formation of the fetus to a handbook of surgery and a treatise on imagination. See Hirsch II, p. 363. Binding: HB.
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