Rare first editions of an Aleppo dialogue on medicinal barley infusions (1584/91)
and a surgical handbook (1612)



MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso.
Philodicus, sive Dialogus de ptisana, ...
Venice, "ad signum Leonis" [= heirs of Curzio Troiano Navò], 1591 [all but the prelims printed by Francesco Osanna, Mantua, 1584].
With: (2) PARMA, Ippolito. Introductionis ad chirurgiam libri duo. ...
Padova, Pietro Paolo Tozzi (printed by Lorenzo Pasquato), 1612. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with the title page printed in red and black in an illustrated woodcut border, a woodcut headpiece, 4 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, and a small acorn. Ad 2: with Tozzi's(?) woodcut Minerva device in a scrollwork cartouche on the title page, numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and other decorations, 6 woodcut decorated initials and arabesque typographic ornaments. Half calf (French, ca. 1750), gold-tooled spine with a label (with both titles), plain paper sides, green headbands. [8], 124, [2 blank]; [8], 196 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
Venice, "ad signum Leonis" [= heirs of Curzio Troiano Navò], 1591 [all but the prelims printed by Francesco Osanna, Mantua, 1584].
With: (2) PARMA, Ippolito. Introductionis ad chirurgiam libri duo. ...
Padova, Pietro Paolo Tozzi (printed by Lorenzo Pasquato), 1612. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with the title page printed in red and black in an illustrated woodcut border, a woodcut headpiece, 4 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, and a small acorn. Ad 2: with Tozzi's(?) woodcut Minerva device in a scrollwork cartouche on the title page, numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and other decorations, 6 woodcut decorated initials and arabesque typographic ornaments. Half calf (French, ca. 1750), gold-tooled spine with a label (with both titles), plain paper sides, green headbands. [8], 124, [2 blank]; [8], 196 pp. Full description


























