Practica canonica de febribus… Item de pulsibus. Urinis. Egestionibus. Vermibus. Balneis omnibus Italiae, edited by Cesare Ottato, woodcut Giunta device on title and colophon, initials, double column, light age yellowing, occasional spotting, some intermittent light staining and dust soiling at end, a few leaves browned, a few marginalia in a contemporary hand, later vellum boards, modern title label to spine, some spots, new endpapers, folio, Lucantonio Giunta, Venice, 1552.

*** Scarce edition of Savonarola’s collected works originally appeared in Venice in 1498. Grandfather of Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), the author studied medicine at the University of Padua where he became professor. He subsequently moved to Ferrara as court physician to the Estense court in 1440. His many medical writings were based on the authority of Avicenna, Aristotle, Galen, and Hippocrates but reacted against scholasticism in favour of experimental medicine.