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GALENUS, Claudius (129-ca. 200/216); HIPPOCRATES (460-ca. 370 B.C.). In librum Hippocratis de victus ratione in morbis acutis Commentarii quatuor . (With Latin text). Translated by Johannes Vassaeus. Lyons: Guillaume Rouill, 1549. 16mo (120 x 78 mm). Italic and roman types. Printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut and metalcut initials. Ruled in red throughout. Slightly later French calf, covers blocked in gold with interlacing strapwork and arabesque stamp painted black and dark brown, smooth spine gilt in compartments with hatched tools, edges gauffred and gilt (worn and chipped, head of spine defective, sides heavily overpainted).The present edition of Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' treatise on diet during acute illness, one of several reprints of Jean Vasss' translation (first published by Simon de Colines in 1531), is quite rare (not in Adams, BM, Waller, or Wellcome). NLM/Durling 1549. [ With :] DANTE Alighieri (1265-1231). [ Divina Commedia] con nuove et utili ispositioni . Lyon: Guillaume Rouill, 1552. 16 o (119 x 73 mm). Italic type. 3 full-page woodcuts, woodcut medallion portrait of Dante, printer's device, and initials. Ruled in red throughout. (Marginal repairs to first few leaves, marginal wormhole at front, some soiling, light foxing, marginal dampstaining at end.) French, possibly Lyonese binding of ca. 1560, vellum-backed light brown calf, covers decorated in gold with triple fillet border enclosing three cartouches composed of interlacing ribbons, the upper and lower cartouches with gold-tooled grotesque faces, the central cartouche with a semis of five-petalled flowers, a few azur tools, smooth vellum spine with similar interlace decor and the same flower tools, the borders, strapwork, and open portions of tools painted red and green (lacking two pairs of fore-edge ties, rubbed, old restorations to joints, later endpapers, new endbands, inner hinge split, paint possibly restored). Provenance : Cosma Pescetti, Rome 1796 (inscription on lower flyleaf); 1877 collation inscription by an Italian owner on same flyleaf. A page-for-page reprint (possibly a reissue, with new title) of Rouill's 1551 edition. Adams D-99; Brunet II, 503; Fairfax-Murray French 685. Two examples of the popular series of pocket editions of classical texts issued by several Lyonese presses in the mid-sixteenth century. Like Jean I de Tournes, Rouill published a number of medical texts in this small format, including several works of Galen, all published in 1549. (2)