SASSONIA, Ercole.

4to, ff. (viii), 48, (1) errata. With two different printer’s devices (on the title and last leaf), and two woodcut tailpieces. Library stamp on the title, otherwise a very clean copy. Old boards. Presentation copy from the author to an unnamed recipient, inscribed and dated at the foot of the title in the year and place of publication: “Donum Authoris VII Novemb. Ao. IIIC Patavii”.

Second edition (first, 1593, under a slightly different title) of the the principal treatise on venereal disease of Ercole Sassonia (1551–1607), a Paduan by birth and professor of medicine at the university of Venice and later of Padua. This copy is unusual in having a contemporary presentation inscription, and for having a final errata leaf which is not recorded in any other copy found.