Hippocrate

1657 · réf. 40635 — Geneva: Typis & sumptibus Samuelis Chouet 1657. later edition. Folio. 44 1344 56pp. Last leaf blank. Engraved frontispiece on the verso of the half-title. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. 383 x 240 mm. 17th or 18th century calf gilt spine worn and rubbed hinges cracked. Half-title / frontispiece and title repaired repairs to lower margins of first 14 signatures some worming in lower margins of following signatures. Anutius Foes's critical edition of the complete writings of Hippocrates first published in 1595 was "recognized by scholars everywhere as unquestionably the best of its kind before the time of Littré" Garrison Introduction to the History of Medicine p. 189. "Foes used a number of manuscripts and much medical insight and philological ingenuity to improve the text of the early editions" Smith p. 45. Smith "Introduction" in Hippocrates Pseudepigraphic writings ed. W. D. Smith 1990 pp. 1-46. Typis & sumptibus Samuelis Chouet unknown books