FICINO, Marsilio (1433-1499)

Tractatus singularis...de epidimiae morbo , ex Italico in Latinum versus. [Colophon:] Augustae Vindelicor[um] in Sigismundi Grim[m] Medici & Marci Wyrsung officina ex cusoria Anno virginei partus. M.D.XVIII. sexto Kalen[s]. Octobres

      Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung, 1518. 4to: a--f4 g6 (blank g6), 30 unnumbered leaves.Roman letter. Woodcut initials, large woodcut (85 x 109mm) on title. Leaf size and condition: 196 x 142mm. Title slightly discoloured and with a minor ink stain; light waterstain in lower inner corners. A good fresh copy. Binding: Nineteenth-century boards, worn. Provenance and annotation: Nineteenth-century inscription 'Ex libris O. H. 346'. Walter Pagel, signature dated 1954; (1896--1983); B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: VD16 F931; Durling 1536; Wellcome 2263; Heirs of Hippocrates 132. First Latin edition, translated by Girolamo Ricci (first edition, in Italian, 1481). § A treatise on the Plague discussing its signs, causes, diagnosis and treatment. One of Ficino's earliest works dealing entirely with medicine. The fine sickroom scene on the titlepage is by Hans Burgkmair. It was used again a month later in Engel, Tractat von der Pestilentz (Augsburg, Grimm and Wrisung, 4 November, 1518). (R. Muther, Die deutsche Bücherillustration, v. 1 (1884) no. 873.)