![Item #003473 Medicina catholica, seu mysticum artis medicandi sacrarium. [Tomus I, tractatus I] /...](/pictures/thumb/003473_01.jpg?v=1649072428)
Frankfurt am Main: C. Rötel for W. Fitzner, 1629. Two parts in two volumes. Folio (313 x 194 mm). [20], 241 [1]; [6], 118, [2] pp., including engraved printer's device on first title, 24 engraved illustrations in text (22 in first and 2 in second part, some full-page), woodcut initials..... More
Verona: [Stefano dei Nicolini da Sabbio], 1530. August 1530. 8vo (204 x 148 mm). Collation: a-e8 (-e8). 39 leaves (of 40, lacking the final of four blanks only), unfoliated. Italic type, initial spaces with guide letters. Later stiff vellum, spine with 3 raised bands. Some pages with faint marginal staining..... More
Paris: Carole Guillard, 1555. 8vo (164 x 108 mm). [20], 238 ff. Text in Greek and Latin. Modern vellum, spine titled in script. Text with only little marginal browning or soiling, occasional minor light spotting, first 3 leaves including title cleaned, a few neat annotation in contemporary hand to first..... More
Basel: Froben & Episcopius / Andreas Cratander, 1530. I. Opus medicum practicum, varium, vere aureum, et postremae lectionis : Claudii Galeni ... De compositione pharmacorum localium, siue secundum locos, libri decem. Basel: Froben & Episcopius, 1537. [28], 549, [3] pp., 1 illustration in text, woodcut initials. Signatures: a4 *10 b-y6..... More
Paris: chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1728. 12mo (164 x 101 mm). [26], 540 pp., including 20 engraved plates, numbered I-XX. Signatures: a12 e1 A-Y12 Z6. Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered morocco label (spine ends chipped, hinges split at ends, corners scuffed, soiling and..... More
Venice: Antonio Somascho, 1594. Small 4to (198x146 mm). [4], 91, [1] leaves. Title with woodcut printer's device, browned throughout (some pages stronger), minor spotting, index to final blank verso in contemporary manuscript, some worming to lower margins at end, 20th century vellum-backed marbled boards, new endpapers. ---- Durling 2007; Adams..... More
Paris: J. B. Brunet et Demonville, 1778. Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement, jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec des planches imprimées en couleur.Seconde édition, augmentée de la coupe de la symphise. Paris: Demonville, 1778. Large Folio (410..... More
Augsburg: Heinrich Stayner, 1542. Folio (285 x 190 mm). 88 leaves, ff. [4], LXXXIIII. Double column text in Fraktur type. 24 large woodcut illustrations, mostly full page, attributed to Hans Wechtlin, the first on the title-page, one inserted woodcut plate printed as broadside on full sheet and bound in as..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff the elder, 1556. 4to (190 x 145 mm). [8], 84 leaves. Title with large woodcut illustration, woodcut text illustrations (several full-page). Signatures: *4 A-X4. 20th century half vellum, boards covered with reused 16th century paper sheet of religious text. Somewhat browned internally, a few faint..... More
Leyden: Van der Aa, 1731. 1731-1737. Three parts in two volumes. 4to (215 x 165 mm). [16], 285 [1] pp., 2 folding engr. plates; [16], 220, [188] pp.; 46 pp. Oratio dated 1731. Pages untrimmed and partially unopened. Contemporary card boards with floral-decorated paste paper (paper on spines gone, binding..... More
Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung, 1818. 4to (257 x 208 mm). xvi, 210 pp., 6 folding engraved plates by E. Lud Meyer and C.F. Thiele. Bound in 19th-century cloth-backed boards (minor repair to spine, extremities rubbed). Text generally clean and bright, just the title and final text leaf a bit browned and spotted..... More
Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1571. 4to (235 x 159 mm). [20], 332, [10] pp. Woodcut device on title, large floral and historiated woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text. Signatures: *8 **2 A-X8 Y4. Including the final blank Y4. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, flat spine and lower edge lettered in..... More
Paris: chez Estienne Michallet, 1679. 12mo (158 x 86 mm). Three parts in one volume. [16], 262, [2] pp., including privilege leaf at the end, bound without the engraved frontispiece and the engraved plate. Signatures: ã6, e2, A-Y6. Contemporary sheepskin, spine with gilt decoration, binding very worn (spine leather in..... More
Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544. 30 April 1544. Folio (356 x 243 mm). [36], 533, [3] pp., including final blank, 210 woodcut text illustrations (of which 30 full-page), ornamental metalcut initials. Roman and Greek types. Signatures: aa8 bb10; a-z8 A-I8 K-L6. Early 17th century calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-ruling..... More
Rouen: Jean Viret et al. 1649. Folio (360 x 234 mm). [52], 1-167 [1], 32, 169-863 [1], [32] pp. Title printed in red and black and with large woodcut vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 21 full-page anatomical engravings, 11 full-page engravings of instruments and 14 smaller woodcut illustrations of..... More
London, Paris: Baillière, 1843. New Memoir on the Nervous System. London, Paris: Baillière, 1843, 4to. (281 x 215 mm), x, [2], 3-94 pp., half title, 5 folding engr. plates (the last with a little hand-colouring), unobstrusive library stamps to title and plates, pages untrimmed, new endpapers. Original cloth with blindstamped..... More
London: John Churchill, 1857. 8vo. (198 x 120 mm), xiii, 216 pp., wood-engraved vignette illustrations including one to half-title verso, library stamp to title (slightly offset), short tear to half title and title, pages untrimmed, minor marginal finger-soiling, modern cloth gilt, new endpapers. Provenance: Birmingham Medical Institute. First Edition. More
Paris: Vincent, 1757. 1757-1760. 5 volumes. 12mo (165 x 96 mm). xi [1], 449 [3] pp. and 1 plate; [4], 414 (i.e. 412) pp. and 1 plate; [4], 449 [1], [2] pp. and 1 plate; [2] 480 pp.; [2] 435 [1] pp. and 1 plate. Contemporary mottled French calf, spines..... More
London: For Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673. Three parts in one volume. 8vo (167 x 105 mm). [24], 107, [21], 16, 13-172 pp. Signatures: a4 A-U8, (U3, U4 misprinted T3, T4). De Back's treatise has a separate title-page. With lengthy eighteenth-century annotations concerning Harvey to both endpapers. Contemporary calf..... More
Leyden: Johann Maire, 1639. Two parts in one volume. 4to (180 x 138 mm). [8], 267 [1], [2] 3-84 pp., including title with woodcut printer's device, separate half-title to second part, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, two engraved folding plates. The two unsigned leaves 'Ad lectorem' bound after first title. Signatures..... More
Leyden: Jan van Kerckhem, 1737. 2 volumes in one. 4to (193 x 152 mm), [16], 170; [24], 404, [38] pp.; separate title-page to each part printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, general half-title bound at beginning, separate half-title to second part, 2 engraved plates to first part..... More
Berlin: A. Förstner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (P. Jeanrenaud), 1851. 8vo (203 x 130 mm). 43 [1], [2] pp. and one engraved plate by Afinger after drawings by Helmholtz. Bound in contemporary German marbled paper over card board, spine with hand-lettered paper label, red sprinkled edges, original endpapers (minor rubbing of extremities, corners..... More
Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1855. 8vo (222 x 148 mm). 42, [2] pp. including final advert leaf. Original printed wrappers (minor repair to fold and edges, soiled and spotted). Text somewhat browned and spotted, two pages with old ink markings, one page with annotation in contemporary hand. Provenance: Inscribed by Helmholtz..... More
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648. Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam. Edente authoris filio, F. M. van Helmont. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648. 4to (205 x 160 mm). [36], 1-88, 87-158, 161-176, 175-382, 373-452, 457-800 pp. With engraved portraits of Helmont and his son..... More
Breslau und Leipzig: Korn, 1796. 8vo. [16], 253, [2:blank] pp., contemporary papercard binding (damaged, corners bumped), text spotted and dampstained. ----
Engelmann 242; Hirsch/H. III, 170; not in Lesky, Osler, Waller or Wellcome - First edition/Erste Ausgabe. - Gebräunt u. wasserfl., Einbandbezug fehlt, Ecken bestoßen. Henschel (1755-1839) recommended in this..... More
