A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery : together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher ; with biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions / [Lewis Stephen Pilcher].

  • Pilcher, Lewis Stephen, 1845-1934.
Date:
1918
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Credit: A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery : together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher ; with biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions / [Lewis Stephen Pilcher]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fine copy, with wide margins, ornamental initials in alternating red and blue. Some leaves show the track of a bookworm, and at rare intervals are stains from flowers that have been placed between some of the leaves. Johan Michael Savonarola was a professor at Padua and Ferrara from 1434. Died about I46o(?). He was the grandfather of the famed Jerome Savonarola of Florence. He was a close follower of the Arabists, especially of Avicenna. The first edition of his monumental book, Practica de Egritu- dinibus, was published at Colle in 1479 by Bonus Gallus. In 1486 it was republished at Venice by Andreas de Bonetis, of which edition the present volume is a magnificent example. Later editions 1487, Bologna; 1491, Venice; 1497, Venice; 1498, Venice; 1560, Venice, all in folio. ft mectendo. Audio ferrarimfifob ircellenttflSr 5 Oa&Jboriio.iDannimiflCPy i oomtm ^oanfllg J&tcbadte fauonarole] mmm&pite vfc& ad 1 mopoz teatmedka ronaleicm diorgntudinib^uedi dplccri: ncq? ipa cognof ^babcatnifipcaqucnobi notfoja ftmr.qtialta font gna fcnfu it iudicio mat fdla: qne nobis pnciptn onto x (cientie fariunt. 1 infra.feinc arbttramo ft p2ius oc figniseatrada v ? f'HviiMvi. ttflcornfa {notcfcar.qutbus raleat medii Xy rahonaU,jxdfa egntudinre corare.*iRa regni ratio a The first paragraph of Savonarola, Practica de cgritudinibus a capile usque ad pede, 1486. To show illuminated initial and the beauty and general characteristics of the type; two-thirds size of original.