Zacchia (Zacchias), Quaestionum Medico-Legalium, 1701
Pauli Zacchiae Romani, Totius Status Ecclesiastici Proto-Medici Generalis, Quaestionum Medico-Legalium Tomus Primus [with Tomus Secundus, Continens Libros VI. VII. VII. & IX. With Tomus Tertius. Quo Continentur Consilia et Responsa LXXXV. Ad Materias Medico-Legalis pertinentia; Necnon Decisiones S. Torae Romanae, Ad Preadictas Materias Pectantes, a Cl. D. Lanfranco Zacchia Collectae.]. Editio Nova, a variis mendis purgata, passimque interpolata, & novis recentiorum Authorum Inventis ac Observationibus aucta. Cura Joannis Danielis Horstii, diversorum S.R.I. Principum Archiatri, & Collegii Medici Moeno-Francofurtani Senioris. Opus omnibus Medicinae & Juris utriusque peritis, necnon Tribunalium (Ecclesiastici, & Civilis) Assessoribus maxime necessarium. Praeter Indicem Librorum, Titulorum & Quaestionum, annexus est Index Rerum Notabilium locupletissimus. Lugduni, Sumptibus Anisson & Joannis Posuel. 1701. Cum Permissu Superiorum.
Folio. Three volumes bound in one. 20th century full brown leather. Soine with raised bands and tooled in gold. Red page edges, with a few small dark ink stains. New end papers. Two title pages in red and black. Purple ink stamps on title page. Paper repairs to gutter of second title page, and following leaf, as wel as top corner of last couple index leaves. Rare worming. Faint dampstain at top edge near rear. Mostly bright. Some foxing and toning. Scattered small dark stains, mostly marginal. Binding tight.
New ffep, new blank, title (iv) half title (viii) 442, blank, title (ii) 443 - 784 (lx) title (vi) 254 (xlii) blank, new rfep.
See G-M 1720 for the first edition (1621-1661): Paolo Zacchia [Zacchias] (1584 - 1659) “Zacchias, a Papal physician, was one of the founders of medical jurisprudence. His treatise includes information concerning injuries of the eye, etc., and contains section on the medico-legal aspects of insanity. The last two volumes were published in Amsterdam.”