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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    23 24 25 26 28 Appollinaris — Arnold 7 Swiss Francs Appollinaris, Quintus. Kurtzes Hand-Biichlein, und Experiment, vieler Arz- neyen, durch den gantzen Corper.dess Menschen .. . Sampt dem Experiment- biichlein von 20 Pestillentz Wurtzeln des Tarquinii Ocyori (Schnel- lenburg). Strassburg 1677. 8vo. With alarge number of woodcuts (plants, herbs &c.). Old vell. 24,— Enlarged and corrected edition. Not mentioned by Pritzel. Arcolani (Herculanus), G. A. In Avicenna quarti canonis Fen primam, in qua de febribus agitur, perspicua atque omnia explicatio, nunc recognita, ac men- dis innumeris expurgata. Venetis, ex officina Valgrisiana, 1560. Fol. Prin- ter‘s device ontitleandlastleaf a 2small woodc-initials. Old limp vellum. 48,— Hirsch I, 184. One of the earliest editions of the famous commentary on Avicenna‘s im- portant work on levers. Nice copy, very well preserved. The first leaves somewhat stained. Aretaeus. De causis et signis acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri IV. De curatione acutorum et diutornorum morborum libri IV. (g raece et latine). Edit. H. Boerhaave. Leyden 1735. Fol. Title in red & black. Contemp. calf, with the tooled arms of N. v. Humbourg on each cover, g. b. 60.— Hirsch I. 186. Chief work of Aretaeus, consisting of a pathological and a therapeutical part, together with the ariginal, Greek ,text »lthe books of Aretaios are writings of imperishable value, monuments of the lofty Hippocratic spirit. After Hippocrates, no single Greek author of whom we have knowledge, has equalled Aretaios. He drew a series of pictures of disease difficult to rival, hardly to be excelled.** (Neuburger). Very finecopy, in an excellently preserved binding. Aristoteles. De physica auscultatione, de generatione & corruptione, de longi- tudine & breuitate uitae, de vita & morte animalium, de anima. — Eiusd. Ethicorum ad Nicomachum compendium. Ed. loa. Lonicerus. Marpurgi, Chr. Egenolph ,1540. 4to. With several woodcut initials. Hf.-vell. 60.— A fine specimen of German Renascence binding, the stamps of which are apparently unknown to Weale. With the large armorial bookplate of Franc. Gottfr. Troilo inside front- cover. (Ps.-)Aristoteles. Secreta secretorum. (Translated by Philippus Tripoli- tanus.) Lyons, Anton Blanchard, 1528. 8vo. 84 leaves, the last blank. W. a nice title-border, large historiated capitals and prin- ter’s device, on dotted ground. Old blind. stamped vell., clasps gone. Nice binding. 180.— A very nicely printed edition of the ,Secreta secretorum’, a medical and physiogno- mical treatise attributed to Aristoteles, but really by an unknown Arabic writer of about 1100 tempestatum. De mineralibus; Alexander Aphrodiseus; De intellectu; Averroes; De beatitudine animae; Alexander Achillinus Bononiensis: De _ universali- bus; Alexander Macedo: De mirabilibus Indiae. A nice copy of tihs rare booklet. Arnold, G. F. Kurtzer Bericht u. Versicherung von d. Herrn Ignatii von Ort- homont, Neu-erfundenen Astrosolis und Junonischen Saltz. Als e. wohl-meri- tirten Universal-Artzney, zur Erhaltung d. Gesundheit u. Verlaingerung des