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RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES. VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519. image 1
RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES. VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519. image 2
RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES. VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519. image 3
RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES. VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519. image 4
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RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES.
VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339.
Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519.

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RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES.

VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519.
8vo (160 x 108 mm). Woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum hand-lettered on spine.
Provenance: Numerous annotations in a few early hands (see below); unidentified European library stamp on title-page.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK describing a range of conditions and their associated remedies. "Early in the fourteenth century Gulielmus Varignana, a native of Bologna so far as I have ascertained, wrote a remarkable treatise which he entitled Secreta Medicinae... The plan on which the book is constructed is simple and convenient for rapid consultation. The author begins at the head and goes through all the diseases in detail right down to the feet, describing their treatment and the remedies to be employed" (Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets, First Supplement, 1894, p.18). Ferguson discusses several editions of this work, but notes that he had not seen a copy of this rare first edition of 1519. In addition to numerous in-text annotations, there are approximately 55 pages of manuscript notes on blank sheets bound in at the beginning and end filled with formulas in Latin for various remedies (and including a 3-page index) in at least two early hands. RARE: According to Rare Book Hub, this is one of only two copies of the first edition of this work to sell at auction in at least 40 years.

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