MONTANI, CONSULTATIONES MEDICAE, 1583

CONSVLTATIONES MEDICAE Ioannis Baptiste Montani VERONENSIS Olim quidem IoANNIS CRATONIS Vratislauiensis Medici Caesarei opera atque studio correctae, ampliataeq;: NUNC VERO' Post secundae Editionis APPENDICEN & ADDITIONES, insigni Nouorum CONSILIORVM Auctario ex LVDOVICI Demoulini Rochefortij, Allobrogum Archiatri, Codicibus exornatae. Cum Priuilegio Caesareo, ad annos sex, MDXXCIII
 
Folio in half brown leather with paste paper over boards. Respined. Red title label (“Consultations Medicae, Montanus”) and date stamped at bottom (“1593”). Scattered small ink stains on boards. Corners bumped and cracked. Shelf wear. Title page with wood cut portrait of author. Scattered small stains on fore-edge, faint fore-edge damp stain, as well as a 1 inch burn affecting fore-edge of last two dozen leaves (far from text). Some corners folded. Otherwise, clean, bright, and tight with only mild foxing. New end papers. Set in two columns. Decorative capitals.
 
Ffep, new blank, recent blank, original blank, title, (15), 1119 columns, 31 pp index, blank, 139 columns, 1 p index, original blank, recent blank, new blank, new rfep.
 
This book covers the entire field of medicine and was first collected in 1559, with an appendix added in 1572, which is also in this edition of 1583. The book includes the earliest consilium (on ophthalmology) by Vesalius, who was a student of Montanus at Padua.
 
See Heirs 132 for the author: “Giovanni Battista Da Monte (1498-1551) … better known by his Latin cognomen, Montanus, was not only a very successful physician and teacher, but a noted poet as well. A fellow-student of Vesalius at Padua, he later taught at Padua, and his practical instructions to students mark the beginning of clinical instruction in which he instituted bedside teaching, one of his most notable achievements. Called ‘the second Galen,’ he was one of a group of medical humanists who were instrumental in reviving the Greek medical classics and eclipsing the influence and teachings of the Arabist school.”