Aetius Amidenus, Biblion iatrikon tomos a, Venice, Aldus, 1534, contemporary German pigskin, Schenck copy

Aetius Amidenus. Αετιου Αμιδηνου βιβλιων ιατρικων τομος α, τουτεστι βιβλια οκτω και πρωτα. Aetii Amideni librorum medicinalium tomus primus, primi scilicet libri octo nunc primum in lucem editi. (Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio and heirs of Andrea Torresano, September 1534)

The early owner of this volume, Johann Schenk von Grafenberg, physician in Freiburg im Breisgau, was the author of several medical works, in particular on what is now called neurolinguistics.

Folio (314 x 210 mm). Greek type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ a-t⁸ v¹⁰ x-y⁸: 182 leaves (c3-6 misbound). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank). A few annotations in Latin in a German hand. (Occasional light foxing or damp-staining.)

binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (333 x 220 mm), two clasps. (Binding slightly soiled, lacking one strap.)

provenance: Johann Georg Schenk von Grafenberg (1530-1598), hand-colored armorial bookplate with verses by Michael Toxites pasted to inside lower cover — Thomas Lauth, professor of anatomy at Strassburg (1758-1826), bookplate — Charles A. Ullrich, inscription on flyleaf — Miss H. Bodenstein, New Jersey, letter addressed to her about this book from the bookseller F. Thomas Heller, 1951. acquisition: Purchased from Philobiblon, Rome, 2011. references: UCLA 274; Cataldi Palau 137; Edit16 418; Renouard 112/7