‘No gentleman can be without three copies of a book’

LUDOVICO Bonaccioli was the personal physician to Lucrezia Borgia and the 1502-03, Ferrara first of his Enneas mulieribus, one of the earlier printed works on women’s health, was dedicated to her as Duchess of Ferrara.

A dozen copies of this rare work are to be found in European institutions, but that sold for £24,000…

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