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Both volumes with general slight signs of use, evenly slightly browned (due to the quality of the paper), else in good condition.
Very rare, attractive set of this account on the expeditions to the Argentinian Patagonia by the German Scientific Society.
The work is the result of the collaboration of several authors as Sr. Alfredo Kölliker, Dr. Franz Kühn, Dr. Fritz Reichert, Adolfo Tomsen and Dr. Lutz Witte, with the prologue of Dr. Cristóbal M. Hicken and the artistic contribution of Prof. Juan Jörgensen.
The German Scientific Society came up with the project of "promoting the knowledge about the Argentinian Republic", which led to several explorations starting from the lesser known lands, such as the Cordillera Patagonica, the mountain system in the Patagonian region.
The first account on the expedition to the Cordillera Patagonica was published in 1915 in a German scientific journal. It was very obvious at that point that one single expedition wasn't enough, given the geographical and… Leer más

some defects to title-page, stains to white margin of first leaves, marginal ink stains to last leaves, overall a good copy in attractive binding.
Rare edition of this work by Paulus Aegineta, the only work by the author that survived. With a concise exposition of the information taken from the manuals of the major "masters of arts", he succeeded in enclosing in a book of modest size much of the medical knowledge of the Greco-Roman era.
The work contains a rather extensive discussion of topics divided as follows:
-the art of preserving health;
-treatise on fevers (or diseases of similar parts);
-internal ailments;
-external ailments;
-sores, bites, poisons;
-surgery;
-simple and compound medicines.
The topics covered are extremely summarized, but not for this reason unclear.
Paul of Aegina (Aegina, 625? - 690?) was a Byzantine physician. He represents the last important exponent of Greco-Roman medicine and is to be considered as the "bridge" between the latter and medieval medicine. The first… Leer más