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(i) DONATUS, Marcellus (1538-1602). De medica historia mirabili libri sex , Venice: Felice Valgrisi, 1588, small 4° (dampstained, some ugly worming of lower margins, three leaves -- 2I1, 3A1 and 3I1 -- with paper faults causing loss of text, some leaves browned), stitched. [Adams D802; Durling 1191; Wellcome I, 1837; cf. GM 3417 (first edition of 1586): "first recorded case of gastric ulcer"] (ii) ADAM, Melchior (1550?-1622). Vitae germanorum medicorum qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, claruerunt , Heidelberg: G. Geyder for J. Rose, 1620, 8°, woodcut title device (title almost detached, lightly soiled and with small excision at lower margin, text extremely browned, some leaves in quires M-S short at margins), contemporary calf (covers detached). [Krivatsky 37; Waller 15736] Provenance : JCL (iii) FERNEL, Jean (1497?-1558). De morbis universalibus et particularibus. Libri IV , Leiden: F. Hackius, 1645, 8°, engraved title (P1r with old ink stain); De abditis rerum causis , Leiden: F. Hackius, 1644, 8° (B7 torn with loss of marginal headings recto and verso, E7 with blank section excised from lower margin); Consiliorum medicinalium liber , edited by Juliano Palmario, Leyden: F. Hackius, 1644, 8° (G3 with heavy rust stain, final leaves dampstained, 3 works bound in one (all browned at margins), contemporary calf (worn). (3)