Author: NIGRI [NIGER], Ant.
Title: Consilium de tuenda valetudine, ...
Description: Vitebergae, In Officina typographica Simonis Granenbergii, 1581. Small 8vo. W. small woodc. vign. on printed title. 19th - early 20th c. black paste paper brds., corners mild rubb. [A-E8 (E8 blank)]. (40 lvs.). (Throughout even medium browning.). (Inscr. and annots. in contemp. hand.). (Inscr. in ink on printed title '' sunno libellum sui a Nicolao Hofman 15..ao 1603. 13 octob:'). (Some paragraphs in the text in a charming Greek type.). Joecher vol. III, 944: Durling 3360: Brit. Mus. STC German, p. 653 (1554 ed.): Niger was a medical doctor from Breslau who studied at Erfurt and in Italy. He taught at Braunschweig where he died in 1555. On the last printed leaf [leaf 39] a letter by Plinius Secundus 'De Diligentia conservandae sanitatis, ex Libro VII'.:

Keywords: century health hortus medicine 16th Wittenberg gezondheid Viref