PANTEO, Giovanni Antonio (c. 1440-1497)

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      [Venice: Bernardino Vitali, 1505]. Folio: aa--bb4 b6 c--e4 f6 g--s4 (without the blanks o4 and s4), 78 of 80 unnumbered leaves. Roman letter with passages in Greek. 6-line and 5-line woodcut initials as well as spaces for initials of the same size with guide letters. Leaf size and condition: 294 x 200mm. First leaf dustsoiled, all leaves mounted on guards, blank corners of q1 and q2 restored, tears in s1 repaired without loss. Binding: Recent vellum. Provenance and annotation: Walter Pagel (1896--1983); B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: Edit16 CNCE 37843 and 49429 (identical but with prelims bound in a different order); BM STC Italian p. 488; Durling 3439; Klebs 721.1; Goff P74. First edition. The dedication by Alessandro Benedetti is dated Venice 1500 and the book was formerly considered an incunable. Durling and Edit 16 follow the BM STC in ascribing printing to Bernadino Vitali in 1505. § A description of the medicinal hot baths near Verona, one of the earliest, if not the first work on balneology. There are notes on chemical and medical subjects. Panteo, a priest, was secretary to Ermolao Barbaro, bishop of Verona and later professor of cannon law at Padova.