(MEDICINE)

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $2,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Lisbon

Publication

1539 and 1540

Description

LUDOVICUS (LUIZ), ANTONIO. Problematum, Libri quinque. Title between architectural columns abounding in statuary. Richly historiated initials. On final page, printer's device of winged dragon. ff. 62. * BOUND WITH: LUDOVICUS (LUIZ), ANTONIO. De Occultis Proprietatibus, Libri quinque. ff. 70

references

Friedenwald, p. 98. No copy in Waller, Cushing or Osler Catalogues

summary

Antonio Luiz, a native of Lisbon, was Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at the University of Coimbra. Luiz was celebrated for his mastery of the Greek language. He died circa 1565. Dr. Augusto da Silva Carvalho described Luiz as the "Judeu Lisbonese.” In the catalogue of the library of King Manuel of Portugal (pp. 519-29), the claim was made that Luiz had preceded Newton in the discovery of the law of gravity

Foxed and stained in places, damp-wrinkled. Later calf, rubbed. Folio

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