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RHAZES, [ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYA AL-RAZI]. Opera Exquisitoria, quibus nihil utilius ad actus practicos extat... Per Gerardum Toletanum medicum Cremonensem, Andream Vesalium Bruxellensem, Albanum Torinum Vitoduranu, Latinitate donata, ac iam primum quam castigatissime... Basel: Henricus Petri, [1544]. Printer's device on colophon. Folio, contemporary vellum (a leaf from a large folio manuscript, scraped almost clean), light wear to spine; light marginal worming and staining. FIRST EDITION of Rhazes collected works. NLM/Durling 3313; Waller 5460; Wellcome I, 5460. Rhazes' Opera contains his most important writing, the ninth book of Almansor, in the improved translation of Vesalius. This translation, of which there are only two separate editions (both 1537), was written by Vesalius at the age of 22. It is one of his scarcest writings and the first in which his name appeared.