DEUX OUVRAGES reliés en 1 volume : 1. Medicina aegyptiorum accessit huic editioni ejusdem auctoris liber de Balsamo et Rhapontico, ut et jacobi bontii medicina indorum. Lugduni batavorum, Potuliet, 1745, (12), 325pp., (1pp.), (23), 5 planches h.t. Editio nova. "First important work on the history of Egyptian medicine". (Garrison N° 6468 1st ed.). "Alpini, italian physician and botanist, graduated from Padua, traveled through Greece, Crete and Egypt. Following his travels, he returned to Padua where he remained as professor of botany and director of the botanical garden until his death. This work was one of several major books that resulted from his travels and is a comprehensive account of medicine as it was practiced in Egypt". (Heirs of Hippocrates N° 384 1646 ed.). - 2. Dialogus inquo verissima balsami plantae, opobalsami, carpobalsami & xylobalsami cognitio, plerisque antiquorum atque juniorum medicorum occulta, nunc elucescit, (1), pp. 73/258, 2 planches dépliantes