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ALPINO, Prospero
- De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium libri septem (...). Cum praefatione
Hermannus Boerhaave [ed. Hieron. D. Gaubius]. Leiden, Isaac Severini, 1733, 4to, cont. vellum,
[22]-558 (= 564)-[46-4 bl.] pp. (title spotted, lower corner of some quires sl. stained). Good copy.
€ 100/150
2nd corr. ed. of a treatise on prognosis by P. Alpino (1553-1617), Italian physician and botanist.
Preface by H. Boerhaave (1668-1738) and edited by H.D. Gaubius (1705-1780). The work is based
upon Hippocrates, with special emphasis on the patient’s state of mind and its relationship to overall
health.
Engr. ills
: title-vign. by P. Sluyter after J. Goeree and
large folding author’s portrait
by
R. Blokhuysen (torn, repaired at verso). Title in red & black. 18th c. ownership entry on endpaper.
Ref.
Blake 12. Wellcome II 36. BMN I 159. STCN (3).
1475
ALPINO, Prospero
- MedicinaAegyptiorum (...). Liber de balsamo, et rhapontico [and]
BONTIUS,
Jacobus
- Medicina Indorum [new ed.]. Leiden, Gerard Potvliet, 1745, 2 parts in 1 vol., 4to, cont.
vellum, [24]-325-[45], 73/258-[2] pp. (minor browning and spotting). Good copy.
€ 150/250
2nd Leiden ed. of a rare work on
embalming in Egypt
by the Italian physician Alpino (1553-1617).
He went to Egypt in 1580 & remained there for 3 years. On his return he practised in Genua and
in 1593 he became prof. of botany at Padua. The work also describes medical preparations and the
pharmaceutical use of the “balsamo” and the “rhapondico”. It is followed by a treatise on
Indian
medicine
and the use of pharmaceutical plants by J. Bontius (1592-1631). Ill. with
8 engr. plates
.
Title in red & black.
Ref.
Blake 12. Wellcome II 36. BMN I 75. STCN (i.a. 1 BL London). Young &
Ferguson, Bibl. chemica 27-28.
1476
[Anatomy]
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DIONIS, Pierre
- L’anatomie de l’homme, suivant la circulation du sang (...) [6th
rev. ed.]. Paris, Wid. d’Houry, Laporte, 1780, Paris, wid. d’Houry, Laporte, 1780, 8vo, cont. calf,
gilt ruled flat spine (def. at head & tail), [4]-xxxii-781-[3] pp. (somewhat spotting). Good copy.
€ 200/300
Later ed. of this extensive manual by the French physician Pierre Dionis (1643-1718), 1st publ.
1691.
Engr. ills
: front., full-page portrait and
24 pls
(n. I-XXI + A-C). Woodcut ornament on title.
Ownership entry on title.
Ref.
Blake 121. Cp. Wellcome II 471.
We join
:
Tassin, Léonard
- Les administrations anatomiques. Sedan, Fr. Chayer, 1676, 8vo, cont.
calf (corners bumped), gilt orn. spine on 4 raised bands (joints splitting, def. at head & tail), [6]-
226-[2 bl.] pp. (sm. wormtrack in last 2 ff., margins sl. staining). 1st (?) ed. of this work on myology
by Tassin, surgeon major of the military hospital at Maastricht. Dedicated to “monsieur des Allus,
conseiller du roy & general des vivres de ses armées”. Woodcut ornament on title.
Ref.
Krivatsy
11713. Bn-Opale plus (1). BL London. -
Van Horne, Johannes
- Opuscula anatomico-chirurgica,
seorsim quae antehac temporibus diversis prodierunt, in praesens nunc congesta volumen, atque
annotationibus (...) Johannis Guilielmi Pauli. Leipzig, Th. Fritsch, 1707, 8vo, cont. calf, spine on 4
raised bands (joints somewhat rubbed), [56]-581-[51] pp. (some browning and spotting). Otherwise
good copy.
1st ed.
of this work by the Dutch prof. of anatomy and surgery J. van Horne (1621-1670),
ed. by J.G. Pauli. Engr. full-page pl. Woodcut ill. on title. Title in red & black.
Ref.
Blake 221. BMN
I 297. (3 vol.)
1477
[Anatomy]
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DU LAURENS, André
- Toutes les oeuvres (…) [trsl. from the Latin Theophile
Gelée]. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1621, folio, cont. calf (sl. rubbed), spine on 5 raised bands,
[10]-385-[9], 53-[3], 43-[3], 57-[3], 30-[4] ff. (lacking errata leaf and part title 3V^6 and 3V^6 and
2F^3 at the end (privilege), flyleaf reinforced, some marg. spotting). Good copy.
€ 800/1200
2nd ed. (1st 1613) of the French trsl. of the medical writings of A. Du Laurens (1558-1609), physician
of Henri IV.
Engr. ills
: title, fine
portrait of Laurens
facing p. 1,
26 full-page pls by J. de Weert
after Vesalius
(ff. 137-165). Ownership notes on flyleaf. Ownership entries on title.
Ref.
Krivatsy
3507. Wellcome I 1942. BN Paris (1, also without 3V^5 & 3V^6). Not in Goldsmith (BL London).