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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    diluit, atque repurgat. . . . Cum adnexione Responsionis specialioris. 2411., pp. 356, 211. (last blank). 8vo. Leipzig: A. Lamberg for J. Apelius. 1608. Bound with his Tractatus nobilis primus. 1607. 276. — Kurtzer hermetischer, spagyrischer oder chymi- scher Discursz, von der edlen und hochnützlichen Tinctur Martis. Nebenst angehengten kurtzen . . . Beweisz, das die Medicina hermética oder chymica, eine uralte . . . Kunst sey. Zu auszbreitung Göttlicher Ehre, zu vertheitigung obgemelten . . . hermetischen Kunst, und zu beförderung vieler leute Wolfarth. 24 11. 4to. Berlin: Heirs of C. Rung. 1610. AMERBACH, Veit [1487-1557]. See Pontanus, J. Liber de meteoris. Cum interpretatione V. А. 1545. 277. AMICUS, Diomedes [fl. 1596]. De morbis com munibus liber. . . . Ejusdem tractatus de variolis, et appendix ad librum de morbis communibus in quo agitur de causa praesentis tempestatis. 811., ff. 174. 4to. Venice: F. de Franciscis. 1596. Signature of ‘Franciscus de Verme artium et medicinae doctor’ on t.p. 278. — Tractatus tres. . . . Primus de morbis omnibus communibus generatim. Secundus de peste singillatim ac de omnibus illius differentiis ac natura, et methodo praecavendi atque etiam curandi eam. Tertius de variolis, morbillis et scoptulis, in quo agitur etiam de natura papularum. Quibus accessit appendix ad librum de mor bis communibus, in quo agitur de causa praesentis tem pestatis. 811., ff. 174. 4to. Venice: Heirs of F. de Franciscis. 1599. A reissue, with a new t.p., of the previous work. 279. AMMAN, Jost [1539-91]. ПароиХм. omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium genera continens. . . . Accesserunt etiam venustissimae imagines omnes omnium artificum negociaciones ad vivum lectori representantes, antehac nec visae, nec unquam aeditae: per Hartman. Schopperum. woodcuts. 14811. 8vo. Frankfort: G. Corvinus for S. Feyerabend. 1568. 280. — Cleri totius Romanae Ecclesiae subiecti, seu, pontificiorum ordinum omnium omnino utriusque sexus, habitus, artificiosissimis figuris, quibus Francisci Modii singula octosticha adiecta sunt, nunc primum a Judoco Ammanno expressi. . . . Addito libello singulari eiusdem Francisci Modii Brug. in quo cuiusque ordinis ecclesia stici origo, progressus et vestitus ratio . . . delineatur. woodcuts. H2[ii4]ll. 4to. Frankfort: M. Lechler for S. Feyrabend. 1585. Sigs. A iii-iv wanting. 281. — Stand und Orden der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen, darinn aller geistlichen Personen, H. Ritter und dero verwandten Herkommen, Constitution Regeln, Habit und Kleidung, beneben schönen und künstlichen Figurn fleissig beschrieben. . . . Durch Joann. Adamum Lonicerum. t.p. in red & black, woodcuts. 115[i 16] 11. 4to. Frankfort: M. Lechler for S. Feyrabend. 1585. A translation of the ‘Cleri totius Romanae Ecclesiae’, etc. Sig. A ii wanting. There is no C iii, but ‘C ii’, with a relevant text, is inserted before sheet N. 282. — Im Frauwenzimmer Wirt vermeldt von allerley schönen Kleidungen unnd Trachten der Weiber, hohes und niders Stands, wie Man fast an allen Orten geschmückt unnd gezieret ist. . . . Sampt einer kurtzen Beschreibung durch den wolgelehrten Thrasibulum Torrentinum Mutislariensem allen ehrhebenden Frauwen und Jung- frauwen zu ehren in Rheimen verfasst, t.p. in red & black, woodcuts. I07[ll5] 11. 4to. Frankfort: M. Lechler for S. Feyerabend. 1586. Sigs. N and R wanting. AMMONIUS IIERME AE [fl. 450-500]. See Johannes Grammaticus Philoponus. Commentaria in libros de generatione et corruptione Aristotelis: ex collo quiis A.H. 1540, 1549. 283. AMOURS, Guillaume, M . D . Louvain [fl. 1506- 17]. [Pronosticati]on nouvelle lan mille cinq eens XVIII [compo]see sur le climat de Fräce. woodcuts. 211. fol. [Rouen: J. Du Moulin. 1517.] Top of text is cropped. One of the figures is that of the ‘astro logical man’ and in the adjoining text are the days prescribed for purgation and bleeding. 284. AMTHOR, Caspar [fl. 1594-1638]. Nosocomium infantile, et puerile; das ist Kinder Lazaret. 2311. 8vo. Schleusingen: P. Schmid. 1638. 285. ANANIA^, Joannes Laurentius [fl. 1576-89]. De natura daemonum fibri quatuor. 611., pp.211. 8vo. Venice: Aldus. 1589. ANASTASIUS. De ratione victus salutaris post incisam venam, epigramma Anastasii ad Armatum. In Regimen Sanitatis. 1557, etc. Hygieia. 1628. ANATOMICAL FUGITIVE SHEETS (Note : Under this heading are collected a number of sixteenth-century broadsides illustrating human anatomy. Similar, but not identical, copies have been described in the following: L. Choulant : History and bibliography of anatomic illustration. Tr. M. Frank. Chicago, 1920. pp. 156- 167. Leroy Crummer: Early anatomical fugitive sheets. Ann. med. Hist., 1923, 5, 189-209; 1925, 7, 1-5. S. G. Lindberg: Chrestien Wechel and Vesalius. Twelve unique medical broadsides from the sixteenth century. Lychnos, 1953, 50-74. J. G. de Lint : Fugitive anatomical sheets. Janus, 1924, 28, 78-91. F. Weindler: Geschichte der gynäkologisch-anatomi schen Abbildung. Dresden, 1908.) A. Skeleton Figures 286. i. Skeleton with right forearm leaning on spade and head thrown back. Legend at top left, in italic, ‘Attede tibi quia morieris. / Hodie mihi, et cras tibi’. At top right, ‘Si no es pro te modo solicitus, / Quis erit pro te i futuro’. And below, at shoulder level, in large caps., ‘BONIS BONA’ on left; ‘MALIS MALA’ on right. At bottom left, in italic, ‘Stefano Scolari fecit et forma Verona’. And across foot, in large caps., ‘MEMENTO MORI ME MORARE NOVISSIMA’. woodcut. 32 x21cm. Verona: S. Scolari, [c. 1550?] 287. 2. EkcXctov, / seu compages ossium humani / cor poris, parte anteriore expressa. Skeleton with right forearm leaning on spade and left hand raised and holding a skull to show the base; with accessory figures of skull and sacrum and explanatory text in Latin on right. (Rep. of similar type, de Lint, Fig. 3.) woodcut, coloured. 38x31 cm. [Wittenberg: S. Groneberg. 1573.] B. Adam and Eve Figures All of these sheets have movable flaps which can be raised to show cut-outs of the viscera attached beneath 288.3-4. [ Above male ] Interiorum corporis humani partium viva delineatio. [Above female ] Perutilis anatomes interio rum mulie-/ris partium cognitio, ac earumdem situs, figura, / numerus, positio, haud iniucunda cognitu. The male figure has explanatory text in Latin, with a number of words in Greek, down each side and at foot, with the imprint beneath, ‘Veneunt apud Ioannem Ruelle,