Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus - 1536 - Early (3rd) Edition of this seminal work - Fracastoro 12th century and earlier and bound in fine gold

and bound in fine gold tooled contemporary black calf

Jan Huygen van Linschoten

Cape Town 1857

At the bottom of the page a potential suitor looks on admirably at the Bijin (lady) with her shamisen

a famous Shogun who unified Japan during the Sengoku civil wars of the late 1500s

Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus - 1536 - Early (3rd) Edition of this seminal work - Fracastoro 12th century and earlier and bound in fine goldSyphilis sive morbus Gallicus Syphilis or the French disease by the celebrated Vicenzan Physician Hieronymi (Girolamo) Fracastoro 1536. 28 pages (complete) Good condition but significant staining to some pages and repairs to the title page. Later 20th Century binding. Syphilis was likely introduced to Europe from South America following Columbuses return from the New World. The first large outbreak was recorded among French troops after the 1494 Siege