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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    choysest. Now put into English for common benefit by James Cooke, Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery. First Epirion. 12mo. Morocco gilt, g. e. (Riviere). London, Printed for John Sherley, 1657. $25 The physician Dr. John Hall was Shakespeare’s son-in-law and executor. The above work describes the ailments and cures prescribed, of many notable people in Stratford-on-Avon at that time, including those of Susanna, Dr. Hall’s wife and Shakespeare’s elder daughter; the case of Elizabeth Hall, Shakespeare’s grand-daughter (who married, firstly, Thomas Nash, and secondly, Sir John Barnard); and other members of the poet’s family, also Michael Drayton the poet. 1657 a.p. [340] JONSTON (John). An History of the Constancy of Nature. Wherein by comparing the latter Age with the former, it is maintained that the World doth not decay universally, in respect of it Self, or the Heavens, Elements, Mixt Bodies, Meteors, Minerals, Plants, Animals, nor Man in his Age, Stature, Strength, or Faculties of his Minde, as relating to all Arts and Science. First Epirion. Small 8vo. Fine copy in original calf. Printed for John Streater, 1657. £3 10s With the original blanks, and leaf of advertisements at end. For THE UsE oF THE Dear anp Dump. 1657 A.D. [341] HELMONT (Ff. M. B. van). Alphabeti vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineatio, quae simul Methodum suppeditat, juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non solum alios faltem loquentes intelligant, sed & ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant. Wath frontispiece and all the 36 engravings showing that the formation of the throat when pronouncing the Hebrew alphabet is in the shape of Hebrew letters. 12mo. Half morocco, uncut. Sulzbach, Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1657. 7 7S 1658 a.p. [342] PISO (G.). De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica. Finely engraved title and hundreds of woodcuts of plants, birds, beasts and fish. Folio. Calf, gilt. Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1658. £14 148 Largely relates to Brazilian Natural History. The latter part of the volume includes an account of the natural history and natives of Brazil and Chile by George Marcgrave, also a natural and medical history of the East Indies by Jacob Bont, and a herbal of aromatic plants by Piso. 1658 a.p. [343] ESTANCEL (Valemtim). Orbe Affonsino ou Horoscopio univer- sal. No qual pelo extremo da sombra inversa se conhece, que hora seja em qualquel lugar de todo o Mundo. O Circulo Meridional o Oriente, & Poente do Sol. A quantidade dos dias, a altura do Polo, & Equador, ou Linha. With engraved frontis- piece. 12mo. Bound by Rousselle in levant morocco, g. é. Evora, 1658. 410 10S [157 ]