Ricettario medicinale di M. Giuseppe Santini Lucchese. Con un pieno trattato intorno alla cognitione del provedere, eleggere, conseruare, preparare e comporre ogni sorte di medicamento.

Serravalle di Vinetia, Marco Claseri, 1604. Small 4to (19.8 x 14.4 cm). Title page with large, allegorical vignette; xviii, 504 pp.; three page-sized engravings with explanatory text on opposite leaves. Early 20th-century boards and endpapers. Spine with two morocco labels with gilt borders, and title. = First edition of an exceedingly rare work on the preparation and production of medicines. OCLC reports just two copies: one in Rome, one in Paris. In 1661 a German translation, Josephi Santini gu¨ldene Apoteck : von Praeparirung und Bereitung allerley Artzneyen, deren man heut zu Tag sich gebrachet wider allerhand Schwachheiten und Gebrechen ; ehe dessen in italianischer Sprach beschrieben, anjetzo aber ins Teutsch u¨bersetzt was published. That later edition is also rare; OCLC reports only six copies - all in German libraries. The author, Giuvanni Santini from Lucchese should not be confused with the 18th century mathematician of the same name. Page 84 misnumbered as 88; 86-87 as 66-67; 90-91 as 72-73; 93 as 89; 178-179 as 180-181; 190-191 as 188-189. Mostly marginal damp-stains (diminishing) to the title and preliminary pages, and again, diminishing, from the last page back to p. 479. Otherwise, a very well-preserved copy. No auction records. Neither in Garrison-Morton, nor in Brunet, nor in Cat. BM(NH).