Extremely rare first Giuntina edition of Avicenna, enriched by six images of chiropractic.

This is the first edition ever to contain illustrations: six meticulous woodcuts depicting a doctor performing chiropractic treatments, usually first attributed to Giunta's 1555 edition, where they were moved from the appendix to the text.

The text is based on Gerard of Cremona's translation, edited and revised by Andrea Alpago of Belluno (ca. 1450–1521/22), who also included an extensive glossary of Arabic terms as an appendix, "Interpretatio Arabicorum nominum" (no original Arabic edition was printed until 1593). The illustrated frontispiece includes portraits of the great classical Greek and Roman and medieval Islamic figures in medicine and philosophy: Asclepius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, Rasis, Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Averroes. The first edition prepared by Alpago appeared posthumously in 1527, as did his glossary, but both were expanded for the current edition, which served as a model for all subsequent editions in the centuries to come. Ibn Sina's Keta-b al-qanun fi'l-tebb (Canon of Medicine), hailed as "the most famous medical text ever written" (Garrison & Morton 43), was written in Arabic but widely translated throughout the Middle Ages and formed the basis of medical education in the West until the mid-17th century. Completed in 1025, the Qanun is divided into five books, devoted to the fundamental principles of medicine, materia medica (which lists approximately 800 drugs), pathology, and diseases affecting the body as a whole and its various parts.