first edition
1535 · Rome
by BRANCALEONI, Giovanni Francesco
4to. [20 x 14.4 cm], (30) ff. Woodcut printer's device on title, two woodcut initials. Bound in old stiff vellum stained green (rather spotted and abraded). Contemporary marginal annotations throughout, some possibly by Ottaviano Caligari (?). Scattered leaves lightly soiled, paper flaws in blank margins of ff. D, G, but generally very good.
Rare first edition of this influential balneological treatise by one of the founding fathers of hydrotherapy. A modern interpretation of Galen, Avicenna and Hippocrates, Brancaleoni's work promoted the healthful and hygienic effects of bathing a generation earlier than Falloppio, and well in advance (truncated)
Rare first edition of this influential balneological treatise by one of the founding fathers of hydrotherapy. A modern interpretation of Galen, Avicenna and Hippocrates, Brancaleoni's work promoted the healthful and hygienic effects of bathing a generation earlier than Falloppio, and well in advance (truncated)