Sales catalogue 582: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/126
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 582: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On tHE Famous ‘‘ GoLDEN TooTH.” 1595 AD. [219] HORST (J.). De aurea dente maxillare pueri Silesn. First Eprrion. 12mo. Original vellum. Lipsiae, 1595. £15, 158 1596 A.D. [220] ———— Another Edition. Second Edition. 12mo. Half vellum. 1596. Zi5 158 (Guerini 214, Sudhoff 165.) On WERE-WOLVES. Str WALTER Scott’s Copy. 1596 A.D. [221] PRIEUR (F. Claude). De la Lycanthropie ou Transformation d’hommes en Loups, vulgairement dits Loups-garous & si telle se peut faire. Auquel est traicté de la maniere de se contregarder des enchantemens & sorcelleries. 12mo. Original vellum. (Preserved in morocco case.) Louvain, 1596. £27 10s From the Library of Sir Walter Scott, with his Autograph Signature on title. Afterwards in the possession of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who has written inside cover :—‘‘ Chas. Kirkpatrick Sharpe, received from Sir W. Scott, August, 1824.” Sir Walter Scott must have studied this very curious book on Were-Wolves for his work on Demonology and Witchcraft. First Book oN RHINOPLASTY. 1597 A.D. [222] TAGLIACOZZI (Gasparo). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem. In quibus ea omnia, quae ad huius Chirurgiae, Narium ac Labiorum per infitionem restaurandorum declarantur. , With engraved frontispiece. With 22 full-page woodcuts, two illustrations tn the text, and printer’s mark. Folio. Half calf. VWentce, Gaspar Bindont Jr., 1597. (SEE ILLUSTRATION OPPOSITE). £28 Notable in the history of surgery, as the first to treat of rhinoplasty. This work is divided in two books; the 1st contains 24 chapters. In the first 10 the author discusses the various parts of the face and in the remainder he deals with the means of replacing them when, owing to disease or accident the face is deprived of features. In the second part of the book, Tagliacozzi goes into detailed explanation on the dieting of patients about to undergo operations, and on symptoms to be avoided. Of the 22 plates to be found at the end of the book, two represent necessary instruments for rhinoplastic operations, the others illustrate patients in various stages of treatment, and special machines used in facial transformation. ‘“ Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546-99) of Bologna revived the operation of rhinoplasty and was on that account roundly abused by both Paré and Fallopius, and satirized during the following century in Butler’s Hudibras, while the ecclesiastics of his own time, we are told, were fain to regard such operations as meddling with the handiwork of God. In 1788 the Paris Faculty interdicted face-repairing altogether.” This work is in the main a translation from an herbal of Dodoen’s, but Gerard has added some remarks on local plants. The illustrations are taken from Tabernaemontanus (Bergzabern), with the exception of sixteen by Gerard himself. The author was a member of the company of Barber-Surgeons, of which he became master in 1607. He had his own garden of herbs in Holborn. [ 120 ]