Lot 08067

RIVIERE Lazare, “Lazari Riverii… Opera medica universa quibus continentur I. Institutionum Medicarum Libri quinque. II. Praxeos Medicae Libri septemdecim. III. Observationum Medicarum & curationum insignium Centuriae quatuor, cum observationibus rarioribus, ab aliis communicates”, Frankfurt. Sumptibus Joannis Petri Zubrodt, 1669.

Folio, COMPLETE. pp.[1], 2-194, [8], 195-554, [4], 555-700 (i.e. 701), [2], 39. Large printer’s vignette on title page. Few contemporary writings. Early edition of Lazare Riviere’s influential work of general medicine. Riviere was  professor of the university of Montpellier, and the first one to note aortic stenosis. Contemporary half leather, spine with 5 raised bands decorated in gilt. External wear and major rubbing along edges & spine.  Krivatsy, 989.  Not in Brunet.