Hippocrates. VAN HEURN. Opera omnia.

2 vols Folio; 365x230 mm; full vellum binding, spine with 4 ribs, tile written on the spine. Portrait on Frontispiece, two red and black title page with copper vignette, 3 tables out text of which 2 folded. Spread foxing and brownings, unsophisticated copy.

Second edition of the complete works of the Dutch physician, 1543-1601, edited by his son Otto.In two parts, the works published here are the 'Institutiones medicinae', the 'Methodi to Praxin', several treatises: De morbis capitis, De morbis oculorum, De morbis pectoris, De febribus liber, De morbis mulierum, and an important Series of comments from the works of Hippocrates at pages 137-478 of the second volume.