Author: FRACASTOR, Hieronymus
Title: Hieronymus Fracastor's Syphilis: A Translation in Prose from the Original Latin of Fracastor's Immortal Poem
Description: St. Louis, The Urologic & Cutaneous Press, 1931. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth with extensive black pictorial and decorative stamping and lettering. xi, 104pp. Illustrations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Binding lightly soiled as usual. A tight and attractive second edition, revised and enlarged, of this translation of the 1530 poem by the 16th century Italian physician who gave us the word syphilis. Discreet ex-library, with few and mostly-removed markings. Includes "A History of Fracastor's Life" by Mario Truffi. Nice copy of this curiosity. .
Keywords: Medical Poetry
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Title: Hieronymus Fracastor's Syphilis: A Translation in Prose from the Original Latin of Fracastor's Immortal Poem
Description: St. Louis, The Urologic & Cutaneous Press, 1931. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth with extensive black pictorial and decorative stamping and lettering. xi, 104pp. Illustrations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Binding lightly soiled as usual. A tight and attractive second edition, revised and enlarged, of this translation of the 1530 poem by the 16th century Italian physician who gave us the word syphilis. Discreet ex-library, with few and mostly-removed markings. Includes "A History of Fracastor's Life" by Mario Truffi. Nice copy of this curiosity. .
Keywords: Medical Poetry
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 35305
- Book number: 35305
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