JAIME ESTEVE, PEDRONicandri Colophoni... Theriaca. Petro Iacobo Steve medico valentino interprete et enarratoreJAIME ESTEVE, PEDRO. Nicandri Colophoni... Theriaca. Petro Iacobo Steve medico valentino interprete et enarratore. Printer: Johannes Mey Flandrus. Valencia, 1552. Size: 8º. 93 + 4 leaves (198 pages). Extremely rare copy.
This work is one of the greatest Spanish examples of scientific classics with incorporated analyses and is one of the most impeccable Greek texts published in 16th century Spain. -Our edition: Valencia,
1999. Based on the copy belonging to the History of Science Library at the
University of Valencia.
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This is the
first treatise on animal poisons by the doctor and poet of antiquity, Nicandro
de Colofón (2nd Century B.C.). The Greek text appears together with its
Latin translation and an analysis (differentiated by the smaller italics used
for its composition) by Pedro Jaime Esteve (c. 1500-1558), professor of the
University of Valencia and the founder of its school of renaissance-oriented
doctors and naturalists.
-An edition of 3,000 copies, numbered and signed by public notary,
and personally signed by the printer-publisher. 
E.Mail: Vicent García Editores, S.A.