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Hardcover, bound in genuine top-grain red cowhide with raised spine stamped in gold and cover stampings and design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in 22kt gold. 212 pages. All edges gilt. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. Special limited facsimile edition published for The Classics of Medicine Library, 1987, of The Sydenham Society edition of 1848 courtesy of the Reynolds Historical Library. First edition thus. “The Persian physician known as Rhazes (c. 865-c.923), or ar-Rhazi (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya’ ar-Razi) is primarily remembered for his encyclopedia of medicine and for his pioneering work on differentiating between smallpox and measles.” The present work was first translated from Arabic into Latin in 1279 as the Liber continens and though not widely accepted at first in the West became “a landmark in the development of the concept of specific disease entities and the value of diagnostic precision.” Publisher’s small personalized paper label with original subscribers name laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh unmarked and unread like new copy. As new.