Volume 1

A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Library
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1962-2006
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Credit: A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    du corps humain ... les maniérés de destiller eaux, huyles, et quintes essences de toute sorte de matières: faire les extractions, les sels artificiels, et l’or potable, woodcuts. 811. (last blank), ff. 298, 1811. 8vo. Paris: J. Sevestre for J. du Puys. 1573 [col. 1572]. This is a translation of the 2nd part of Gesner’s ‘Euonymus’. 2794. —The same, woodcuts. 7[8] 11. (last blank), ff. 297, 1511. (last blank). 8vo. Paris: J. du Puys. 1579. 2795. — The same, woodcuts. 811. (last blank), ff. 297, 1511. (last blank). 8vo. Paris : J. du Puys. 1582. 2796. —The same, woodcuts. 811. (last blank), ff. 293, 1511. 8vo. Lyons : Heirs of P. Roussin for B. Rigaud. 1593. 2797- —The same, woodcuts. 411., ff. 293, 1511. 8vo. Lyons: P. Rigaud. 1616. 2798. — The same. t.p. in red & black, woodcuts. 811. (last blank), ff. 298, 15 11. (last blank). 8vo. Rouen: J. B. Behourt. 1628. 2799. — The treasure of Euonymus, conteyninge the wonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conserva tion of helth: as quintessence, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes. . . . Where- unto are joyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels. . . . Translated . . . out of Latin, by Peter Mor- wyng. woodcuts. 9[io]ll., pp.40o[4o8, 811.]. 4to. London: J. Daie. [1559.] STC 11800. Pp. 401-8 supplied in MS. copy from 1565 ed. 2800. — A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Euonymus, containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & destill medicines, for the conservation of helth: as quint essence, aurum potabile, hyppocras, aromaticall wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes. . . . Whereunto are joyned the formes of sondry apt furnaces, and vessels. . . . Translated . . . out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng. woodcuts. 1011., pp.408, 7[8] 11. 4to. London: J. Day. 1565. STC 11801. Last TklunlG) leaf wanting L d*' 2801. — The newe jewell of health, wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, devided into fower bookes . . . treating very amplye of all dystillations. . . . Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, Chirurgian. woodcut on t.p., woodcut illus. 1211., ff. 258. 4to. London: H. Denham. 1576. STC 11798. 2802. — The practise of the new and old phisicke, where in is contained the most excellent secrets of phisicke and philosophie . . . treating amplie of al distillations. . . . Newly corrected and published in English by George Baker, one of the Queenes Majesties chiefe Chirurgians in ordinary, woodcut on t.p., woodcut illus. 1211., ff. 235 [256]. 4to. London: P. Short. 1599. STC 11799. A reprint of the 1576 ‘Jewell of health’ with the same cuts. Imperfect. — Observationes de medicinae chirurgicae prae stantia. In Chirurgia. De chirurgia scriptores optimi. *555- 2803. — Sanitatis tuendae praecepta cum aliis, tum lite- rarum studiosis hominibus, et iis qui minus exercentur cognitu necessaria. Contra luxum conviviorum. Contra notas astrológicas Ephemeridum de secandis venis, pp.23. 8vo. Zürich: A. & J. Gesner. [1556.] 2804. — De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapi dibus, metallis, et hujusmodi, fibri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi, woodcuts. 8 pts. 8vo. Zürich: J. Gesner. 1565-66. Contents Jo. Kentmanni . . . nomenclaturae rerum fossilium. . . . Ejusdem calculorum qui in corpore ac membris hominum in nascuntur genera XII. . . . De metallicis rebus ac nominibus. Obser vationes variae ex schediis Georgii Fabricii. Severini Goebelii de succino libri II . . . cum corollario Conradi Gesneri. Valerii Cordi de halosantho seu spermate ceti, cum corollario Conradi Gesneri. S. Epiphanii Episcopi de duodecim gemmis quae erant in veste Aaronis, liber graecus et Latinus. Iola Hierotarantino interprete, cum corollario C. Gesneri. Fr. Ruei ... de gemmis aliquot, iis praesertim quarum D. Joannes in Apocalypsi meminit . . . libri duo. His recte jungetur . . . Conradi Gesneri de rerum fossilium, lapidum, et gemmarum maxime, figuris et similitudinibus liber. Each work has separate t.p. and pagination; some are dated 1566. 2805. — Epistolarum medicinalium . . . fibri III. His ac cesserunt ejusdem aconiti primi Dioscoridis asseveratio et de oxymelitis elleborati utriusque descriptione et usu libellus. Omnia nunc primum per Casparum Wolphium ... in lucem data, woodcuts. 2 pts. 8vo. Zürich: C. Froschfover]. 1577. Pritzel 3302. — Another copy. Bound with Herbarius Latinus, i486. 2806. — De stirpium collectione tabulae tum generales, tum per duodecim menses, cum germanicis nominibus, et aliis hactenus a nemine traditis, olim per Conradum Gesnerum conscriptae ac aeditae: nunc . . . locupletatae, et de novo in usum pharmacopolarum luci datae, per Casparum Wolphium. 811., ff. 146. 8vo. Zürich: Froschover. 1587. Pritzel 3305*. Historia animalium, Lib. I-IV 2807. — Historiae animalium fiber 1, de quadrupedibus viviparis. [Liber 11, de quadrupedibus oviparis. Liber ill, qui est de avium natura. Liber IV, qui est de piscium et aquatilium animantium natura. . . . Continentur in hoc volumine, G. Rondeletii et P. Bellonii et aquatilium singu lis scripta.] 2 ed. woodcuts. 4 pts. in 3. fol. Frankfort: A. Cambierus. 1602-04. A made-up set. Lib. II. (defective) and Lib. Ill printed Frankfort, J. Wechel for R. Cambier, 1585. Lib. I-II 2808. — Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum quae in historia animalium Conradi Gesneri fibro primo et secundo describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, graecis, italicis, gallicis et germanicis plerumque. . . . Editio secunda . . . auctior et emendatior. woodcuts, pp. 128, 411. fol. [Zürich: C. Froschover. 1560.] T. p. wanting, and replaced by a defective copy of that of the third (Heidelberg) edition, 1606. 2809. — Thierbuch. . . . Sampt derselben Nutzbarkeit und Güte, so wol in Essenspeiss und Küchen, als in der Artzney und Apotecken ... in Latein erstmals beschriben. Hernach aber von C. Forer ins Teutsch gebracht. Jetzt aber . . . gebessert, t.p. in red & black, woodcuts. 411., ff. 172. fol. Heidelberg: J. Lancellot for A. Cambier. 1606. Bound with his Vogelbuch. 1600. Lib. Ill 2810. — leones avium omnium quae in historia avium C. Gesneri describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, italicis, gallicis, et germanicis. . . . Ed. secunda . .. aucta, woodcuts, pp. 237 [i.e. 137], 511. fol. [Zürich: C. Froschover. 1560.] T.p. wanting.