The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is. With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It. In Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up
Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1628.
Third edition. [vi], 77 [Democritus to the Reader], [6], 1-79, 78-96 [hand corrected], 97, 98 [hand corrected], 99 [hand corrected], 100, 101 [hand corrected], 102-208, [4] 209-300, 303, 304, 301, 302, 305-359, "359" but actually 360, 361, [362 skipped], 363-374, [2], 375-584, 583, 584, 585-646, [8, Table], [4] pp. lacking the engraved title page. Bound in 19th century calf with six raised bands, ornate gilt ruling to spine, morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Good+ with rubbing along edges of calf, front hinge a bit free, light waviness to pages, some marginal notes and minor corrections in pencil and ink, verso of rear colophon used for penmanship practice by former owner, offsetting. An early edition of the great medical treatise, complete but for the title page. Item #140942211
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