In 12° (mm 130x90). 8 no. pp. 582, no. papers 27. Frontispiece in red and black with silographic vignette. Full contemporary leather with blind-stamped medallion in center of plates, spine with nerves. Good copy a little short at top margin and with wormhole from pp. 7 to 88 (25 pages with very large hole) at lower margin without affecting text; few pages with underlining and marginal notes. Binding somewhat worn but still nice. Lemnius, a Dutch physician, studied at Louvain and was an important figure of his time; he was a pupil of Vesalius and Gessner; he was nicknamed “the hygienist,” an advocate of medical knowledge for a better quality of life; in the 'important treatise, which immediately had numerous reprints after the first edition in 1559 from Simon's presses, a great many natural, curious topics are addressed: hereditary characters, gynecology, somnambulism, drunkenness and properties of wine, dreams, preservation and properties of food, herbs, as well as natural phenomena. Ferguson vol.II p. 24 ; Caillet 6480; Wellcome I, 3703.