Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
28 July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/610
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lot 58—continued, (ta blank), a few stains in the margins of the last leaves, small worm-hole through a few leares at end, a large copy, half green morocco | Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 13,891 ; not in Proctor] Mediolani, Leon. Pachel et Uld. Scincenceler, 1481 54 Rhasis, Abubecker. Almansoris Liber nonus cum expositione Silani. Accedit Recepte super nono Almansoris Petri de Tussig- nano, lit. goth. double columns, 65 lines and head-line toa full page, capital spaces, with guide letters, blank margin of title mended, small worm-holes through first few leaves, worm-hole through margin of some leaves at end in a few cases very slightly affecting the teat, vellum | Hain, *13,896; Proctor, 5022] folio. Venice, Bonetus Locatellus | for Octavianus Scotus], 10th April, 1490 55 SavoNaroua (M.) Practica Medicinae, lit. goth. 282 U/., double columns, printer's device on black ground and numerous floreated initials, half calf | Hain-Oopinger, 14,484 ; Proctor, 5080], VERY RARE folio. Venetiis, exp. Octaviant Scoti per Bonetum Lecatellum, 1497 *.* A work of some importance for the light which it throws on the state of medical science in the 15th century. The author was one of the most famous Italian physicians of the Middle Ages, and grandfather of Girolamo Savonarola the reformer. 56 Savonarola (M.) [Practica] Canonica de febribus, de pulsibus, de urinis, de egestionibus, de omnibus Italiae balneis. Hiusdem tractatus sublimis de vermibus nusquam antehac impressus, lit, goth. 142 U1, 65 lines to a full page, printer’s device and woodcut initials, vellum | Hain-Copinger, 14,489; Proctor, 5094] folio. Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for O. Scotus, 1498 57 ScuEeDEL (Hartmann) Liber cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi usque nune temporis, lit. goth. 338 numbered and 28 unnumbered il., double columns, 51 lines to a full page, NUMEROUS WoopcuTs, original binding of blind stamped pig- skin over wooden boards, catches and clasps | Hain-Copinger-Reich- ling, 14,509; Proctor, *1786] folio. Augustae Vindel. Joannes Schoensperger, 1 Febr.1497 *,* The second edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle; the cuts are reduced from those of the original edition. 58 STEINHOWEL (Heinrich) Pest Regiment. Eyn regiment oder ordenung der fiirsehung vnd beschiermung des erschrockenlichen gebrech der pestilentze... lit. goth. 33 ll., 27-29 lines to a page, fine full- page woodcut (Saints Sebastian and Roch with an angel) and woodcut initials, last leaf in facsimile, vellum | Hain, 15,055 (only
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