MEDICAL Alpino, Prospero. De medicina Aegyptiorum libri quatuor. 11 Bl., 150 num. Bl., 25 Bl.; 1 Bl., 39 num. Bl., 1 Bl. With 6 (2 full-page) text woodcuts. Title in red and black. 23 x 16 cm. Leather d. 18. Jhr. (Berieben und beschmutzen, Kapitale mit kleinen Einrisken) using the original lids and with gold stamped title. Paris, Nicola Reelichuysen, 1645. See Adams A 802. Mortimer 16, Garrison-M. 6468. Durling 178. Mueller 5. Norman 39. – Early edition. The first edition was published in 1591 in the Official F. de Franceschi. "First important work on the history of Egyptian medicine" (GM). "One of the early European studies of non-Western mdicine. Alpini's work deal primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt ... Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work. – Purposes renewed and with Exlibris "D.A.H. Moses M.C.". Front inner joint open browned due to paper, title on Japan raised, sticky and with rims.