Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    110. 7 re en Oe hey cnt Ly re, AY ee dont Ve yal find engraved in large letters: ‘‘ Ticianus Inventor et Delineavit ’’, and there is a portrait bust of Titian above St. Mark’s lion on the title. The engravings decorated in the back-ground with picturesque land-scapes, are really beautiful. Complete copies like ours are of particular rarity. Inner margins of several leaves strengthened, the stained title repaired without affecting the text, except that a large copy with the plates in fine impressions. (VESALIUS). — FORESTUS, (van Foreest), Petrus. Observatio- num et curationum medicinalium et chirurgicarum opera omnia. 24 leaves, 476 pp., 166 pp., 776 pp., index. Folio. Original vellum. Frankfurt, 1614 (1623). Frs. 60.— Contains in the X. book of the Observationes (chapter 97, p. 436). De ce- rebri morbis observationes (De crurium atrophia, in qua crura resoluta vide- bantur) the ‘‘ Gonsilium Vesalii medici imperatoris excellentissimi. This Consilium was written by Vesalius in 1556 or 1557 and only first published in Foreest’s Observationes 1602 ’’. Four pages in the observatio XIX missing. Very browned, VIGO, Giovanni de. Practica copiosa in arte chirurgica nuper edita, quae infrascripta novem continet volumina: De anathomia, de vulneribus, de Morbo Gallico, fractura ossium dislocatione, sub ordine antidotarii, de auxiliis et tabula chirurgicorum navigantium, etc. Black letter. 113 leaves. With great number of large floral woodcut initials and other smaller initials on black ground and on criblé ground. Fine printer’s device at the end. Folio. Venice, he- redes Octaviani Scoti, 1520, 19. Decembris. Bound up,with : VIGO, Giovanni de. Practica compendiosa quam post suam copio- sam in chirurgia compilavit, que libris quinque constare videtur : De vulneribus, de apostematibus, de ulceribus etc. Black letter. 21 leaves. With several woodcut initials, printer’s device at the end. Folio. Venice, heredes Octaviani Scoti, 1520, 22. Januarii. The two books bound together. Modern vellum. Frs. 200.— -Searce and early edition of this classical work on surgery. This work, first published 1514, had an enormous success, running through some 52 editions and innumerable translations, because it was almost the only book before Paré’s thime which dealt with the great problems of the Renais- sance-surgery, epidemic syphilis and wounds from fire-arms. Vigo, in this book, is one of the first’ physicians to mention syphilis (see Proksch I, 97). The fifth book contains two detailed chapters on syphilis on leaves 73-74, entitled: De cura morbi gallici non confirmati, de morbo gallico confirmatio. The same book contains two most interesting chapters on dentistry (leaves 75 verso to 77 verso): De doloribus iuncturarum, de doloribus dentium. The first part of the work deals with anatomy, abscesses, wounds, ulcers, gout, toothache, lepra, fractures and antidotes. The two parts, printed in the same year on different dates, are very ra- rely to be found together. — This work, much used in its times, is usually in bad condition. Our complete copy is somewhat stained and worn and shows traces of use on some leaves, blank margins of last two leaves of the second work gone, not affecting the text, wormholes on last leaf of the same book, many leaves entirely covered with interesting contemporary annotations.
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