Aetius Amidenus

folio (302 x 201mm.), volume 1 (only, all published), text in Greek, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final leaf (otherwise blank), ruled and rubricated in blue and red, eighteenth-century calf, rebacked, dampstained, upper corners from p.111 to end restored with occasional loss of text, lower corner of h6 torn, binding slightly worn at extremities with two corners restored, joints slightly worn 

Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), duke of Sussex, armorial bookplate (this work not found in the catalogues of the sale of his library, Evans, London, 1844-1845)

Adams A305; Censimento 16 CNCE 418; Renouard 1534:7; UCLA 238; Garrison-Morton 33; Durling 43

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Editio princeps of the first half of the Tetrabiblion, the second half of which has never been published. Little is known of Aetius of Amida (502-575), the Byzantine physician best known in the Renaissance for his collection of the work of other men. Although Aetius' originality was questioned by early readers, among them the Byzantine scholar Photius, this part of the Tetrabiblion contains original research on the treatment of aneurysm.