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OF RARE

PHYSICO-MEDICAL BOOKS

FIRST COLLECTION.

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If it is true—and who is there who would deny it?—that knowing rare books is not only a most recent praise, but that knowledge of them is also delightful and beneficial, then learned men who have performed this work famously, and who have pursued this type of subject with great study, certainly should not be defrauded of their praise. It would be long to bring forth a list of all of them here. In this matter, one must consult the famously learned man, most conspicuous for his praise of merits in both sacred and literary matters, JOHANNES VOGT, who, while he himself treats this subject learnedly and elegantly, also commemorates a sufficiently large number of those who either preceded him or