Sales catalogue 230: Gilhofer & Ranschburg

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/34/9
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 230: Gilhofer & Ranschburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    401 403 404 405 406 407 408 Swiss Frances (—) BONAVERA, DOM. Notomie di Titiano, dedicata all‘ ill. Sig. Francesco Ghilisieri. (Bologna, ca. 1670). Fol. Engraved title witha bust of Titian and 17 engr. plates. Hf.-vell. 480.— Choulant, p. 196. Haller II, 740. This work is without any text, it contains only an engraved title and 17 large plates after Vesal. The first plate with a skeleton bears the inscription »lizianus Inventor et Delineavit and on the title-leaf there is a large bust of Titian over the lion of S. Mark. It was thus believed for a long time that these large and beautiful illustrations had been engraved by Titian himself. Slightly brown-stained, but in a good state of preservation. Complete copies are rare. (Vienna). Kurtzer bericht von der Hungerischen Kranckhait, vnnd Kindts Blattern, auch Rot Ruer, dem gemainen Mann zu nutz in druck aufgangen, durch die Wirdige Medicam Facultatem, der Hochléblichen Vniuersitet zu Wienn. Wien, Steffan Kreutzer, 1575. 4to. 16 leaves. Swn. 48.— A rare, popular medical book, edited by ‘ the University of Vienna, giving detailed prophylactic, dietetic and pharmacological measures against the epidemics of the plague, the »Hungarian Fever“, the smallpox and the dysentery. Vigo, J. Practica. Lyon 1582. 8vo. With printer‘s device on title. Limp Vell. 20.- Vogel, S. G. Handbuch d. pract. Arzneywissenschaft z. Gebrauche f. angehende Aerzte. 1.—3. Ausg. 6 Bde. Stendal 1789—1816. 8. Lederbde. d. Zt. mit reicher Riickenvergoldung. Enth.: Von den Fiebern, Bd. 1—3, Entziindungen (Bd. 4), Von den Blutfliissen (Bd. 5), Ueber Magenbeschwerden (Bd. 6). Sehr schénes Exemplar. Waitzen, J. Bedencken iib. d. wahre Alchymiam od. d. Universalitaét d. trock- nen u. feuchten Weges, wie auch der daraus zu hoffend. Particularien. —Phi- lalethae e. unvergl. Adepti Schrifften ... Gotha 1696. 12mo. 144 pp. Old hf. vellum. 25.— Unknown to Ferguson and Kopp. (Walchin, D. J.) Das mineral. Gluten, doppelter Schlangen-Stab, Mercurius Philosophorum, langer u. kurtzer Weg zur Universal-Tinctur. — Der Philo- sophische Perlbaum etc. — Schliissel zu dem Cabinet der geheimen Schatz- kammer der Natur etc. Frankf. u. Leipz. 1722. 8vo. W. a diagram. Hf.-vell. 24.- Ferguson II. 525: »the author or authoress seems to have lighted on a cobalt mineral, and the red so- lution wich was got was supposed to be the much sought for ,,first matter‘. Good copy. Wecker, Joa. Jac. Medicae syntaxes, medicinam universam complectentes, ex selectioribus medicis ,tam graecis quam latinis et arabicis collectae. Basileae, Episcopus, 1562. Fol. Publisher's mark on title & last ieaf. Blind-stamped pig- skin on wooden boards (front-cover broken, damaged). 40.— First edition of a rare medical compilation. Wecker was a physician at Col- mar (Alsace) where he died in 1586. Name on title, a few insignifiant stains, but a fine copy. — De secretis ll. XVII. Ex variis authoribus collecti. Basileae 1582. Svo. With