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Trattato di peste ... nel quale si contengono i più scielti, ed approvati rimedii, con alcuni liquori di sua inventione, sì per curarsi, come per preservarsi / [Pietro Francesco Arellani]

Arellani, Pietro Francesco active 1550 · 1598 · Asti: Giangrandi, Virgilio · 4 pictures

This is a 1598 Italian treatise on plague, written by Pietro Francesco Arellani and printed at Asti by Virgilio Giangrandi, offering remedies and preventive tonics for physicians and the general reader. The pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: decorative headpieces and an initial letter with foliage scrolls, grotesque masks, and ornamental strapwork, a useful source for historical border and capital-letter ideas.

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