Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. DE RE MEDICA LIBRI OCTO. Lyon: Rouillium, 1566. 6.5" x 4". [16], 499 (i.e. 497), [15] pp. Modern vellum over marbled boards, in period style, new endpapers but with original endpapers included (with MS notes), early 19th c. bookplate to front pastedown, contents with some marginalia and underlining in places throughout (mostly in brown ink, occasionally in red ink, likely 19th c.), occasional light foxing or minor soiling. ***************** Originally written around 30 A.D., Celsus left one of the best accounts of Roman medicine and was the first important medical historian. (Garrison-Morton 20.)