Bidspirit auction | MAGNI, Pietro Paolo (1486 -

MAGNI, Pietro Paolo (1486 - 1557) - Discorsi sopra il modo di sanguinare attaccar le sanguisughe, & le ventose, far le fregagioni, & vesicatorij a corpi humani. Rome: Giacomo Marcucci per Giacomo Mascardi, 1626. A interesting treatise on the art of bleeding and the use of leech in therapeutic medicine first published in 1584. Good impression of the plates. 4to (205 x 140mm). Engraved title within architectural border, 11 plates and woodcut initials (minor restorations to small wormholes on title and in a few other parts, some light staining and few occasional wormholes). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (lacking ties, modern guards, some staining and worming). Provenance: early illebile ownership note at bottom margin of *3 and some other annotation among which ”Matteo Gonzelli Nucerino” to verso of I3.