Sales catalogue 1: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.

Date:
1953
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/97
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 1: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the whole it represented a state of knowledge which was already superseded. . . . His geog- raphy and natural history were more advanced, and his descriptions of plants and animals contain original touches which are exceedingly delightful. His herbal was by far the most notable work of its kind written by an Englishman in the Middle Ages. The political geog- raphy of Europe contains a quantity of information which had not been put together be- fore.” —Sarton. This is a fine, complete copy of the first edition of one of the great books of the Middle Ages. Extremely rare. Stillwell B-115 (3 copies); GKW 3402; Hain 2499; Osler 191; Klebs 149.1. 14. BARTOLUS pre SAXOFERRATO. Infortiatum: Super prima parte Infortiati. 320 leaves (fol. 1, 319 and 320 blanks and missing), Roman type, double col- umns. Large folio, old half-calf, new label. | [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471. $675.00 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION. Probably the earliest printed and dated book dealing separately with a part of Justinian’s Digest. A classic law book by Bartolo de Sasso- ferrato (1314-1357), one of the greatest jurists of the Middle Ages. “He adapted and developed Roman conceptions of the authority of the people as a source of power, of the part played by coercion in the creation of law (vis coactiva), of the delegation of political authority and jurisdiction by the Emperor, and the like. His com- mentaries on the subject became the basis of the public law of Central Europe. ...”— Vinogradoff, Roman Law in Mediaeval Europe. __ A beautiful copy and a splendid example of early Venetian printing, with a 12-line colo- phon in verse. Stillwell B-199 (one copy); GKW 3613; Hain 2599; Sarton III/2, 1795. 15. BENEDICTUS pe NURSIA. De conseruatione sanitatis [and] JOHANNES HISPALENSIS (here ascribed to Thaddeus Florentinus). De regimine sanitatis. 140 leaves, Roman type. Small 4to, boards. Bologna: Dominicus de Lapis, for Sigismundus a Libris, 1477. $350.00 FIRST EDITION of the second tract, the author of which was probably John of Seville (Johannes Hispalensis, fl. ca. 1135-1153). It is here (wrongly?) ascribed to Thaddeus Florentinus (d. 1303), one of the founders of the medical school at Bologna. Second edition of the first tract, written by Benedetto de’ Riguardati of Norcia (Spo- leta), who was physician to Pope Sixtus IV and, from 1447 on, to Francesco Sforza. The present work is a highly interesting dietetical treatise dealing extensively with the proper- ties and qualities of food and drink such as citrus and other fruits, sugar, various vege- tables (i.e., spinach), bread, wine, etc., etc. A very fine, large copy of a rare and valuable book, with the Manzoni bookplate. Stillwell B-276; GKW 3819; Hain 11920; Osler, Inc. Med., 129; Klebs 174.2. FEC Rs
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