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![MEDICINE—continued. que de la main seule: et un Traité des principales Maladies qui arrivant ordin- airement aux femmes. Paris, D’Houry, 1748 £2 2s Svo. Calf. Extremely fine folding portrait of the author. 18 plates of obstetrical operations. Good edition of an important book. Very fine copy. Hirsch VI., p. 105. : 224 Victorius (Benedictus) De morbo Gallico liber. Huic amicetitur De curatione Pleuri- tidis per sanguinis missionem. Florence, Lorenzo Torretnino, 1551 £3 3s 8vo. Old limp vellum. It has been said that book is simply a paraphrase of Frascatorius’ poem, in any case a good half of the book is taken up with the work on pleurisy. A very rare book, not in any of the medical collections. Printed in Torrentino’s pretty italic with chapter headings in Roman type. 225 Vigo (Joannes de) Opera in chyrurgia. Additus chyrurgia Mariani sancti Baro- litani Joan de vigo discipuli. Lyons, Ar. de Ry. impensis Jac. et Fr. Giunta, 1538 £3 3s 8vo. Old vellum. Title in red and black. Woodcut border, initials and printer’s device at end. The section devoted to Mariano Santo di Barletta has a separate title-page, with border and small cuts. Vigo’s work had a fabulous success during the 16th century, and went into §2 editions and innumerable translations, because it was almost the only book before Paré’s time which dealt with the two great problems of Renaissance surgery, epidemic syphilis and gun- shot wounds. The second work, by M. Santo of Barletta, gives the original account of the ‘‘ Marian operation ”’ or median lithotomy. Good copy. 226 Waite (G.) The Surgeon-Dentist’s ana- tomical and physiological manual. London, Callow and Wilson, 1826 12s 6d 8vo. Original boards, uncut. Binding worn. 227 Walter (Johannes Gottlieb) Tabulae Ner- vorum Thoracis et Abdominis. Berlin J. G. Deckker, 1783 £2 10s Folio. Old half calf. 8 superb full-page plates showing the nerves of the Thorax and Abdomen. 228 Trotter (Thomas) A proposal for destroy- ing fire and damps of coal mines, and their production explained on the principles of modern Chemistry. Ad- dressed to the owners and agents of coal mines, etc. Newcastle, J. Mitchell, 1805 £1 Is 8vo.. Unbound. An important pamphlet by the great naval doctor. 229 Dewar (H.) A Letter to Thomas Trotter, M.D., occasioned by his proposal for destroying the fire and enae3 coal mines. Manchester, C. Wheeler, Nn.D. [1806] 7s 6d 8vo. Unbound. PALESTINE. 230 Iter Hierusolimitanum et Urbe Roma, A Spanish Franciscan’s Narrative of a Journey to the Holy Land. 16th Century MS. in Latin, 53 pp., paper, small 4to, unbound. A most important and inter- esting account of the journey of a Spanish Franciscan monk from Rome to the Holy 19 Land. The present MS. was formerly in the possession of Mr. Harry Charles Lake, sometime Assistant Governor of Jerusalem, Its late owner translated it with Introduc- tion and notes for the Palestine Exploration Fund. Together with the book, we offer a copy of this translation. From internal evidence Mr. Luke deduces that this MS. was written between 1553 and 1555. ‘“‘ The author includes in his narrative, descrip- tions of places not often referred to by the pilgrims of his day. Amongst them are towns of Northern Syria and the Lebanon, such as Tripoli, Antioch, Aleppo, Beirut, and more particularly, Ba’albek.’’ There are several references to the Jews in Palestine £10 10s 231 Noe (Padre Fra, dell’ Ordine di San Francesco) Viaggio da Venetia al S. Sepolcro, col dissegno delle Citta, Castelli Ville, Chiese, Monasterij Isole, Porti, e Fiume, che 1a si ritrovano...etc. Bassano, G. B. Remondini, 1722 21s 8vo. Old boards. Title in red and black. Numerous striking cuts of views and objects of interest in Palestine, taken from early blocks ; a view of the Corpus Christi procession in Venice, a view of Pola, of Zara, a full-page cut showing pilgrims from Corfu, a view of Corfu, pilgrims of Candia, Rhodes, with a portrait of the Grand Master, etc., etc. Rare. PHILOSOPHY. 232 Gamparella (F. T.) De sensu rerum et magia. Frankfort, Egenolph Emmelius for Godefridus Tainfachius, 1620 £4 10s 4to. Half calf. Very rare first edition of a famous book. Campanella, the contemporary of Bacon and Descartes, ranks with Giordano Bruna as evidence that the time had come fora successful revolt against the Scholastic and Church phil- osophy. The present book, written and edited during the author’s imprisonment, endeavours to prove the existence of consciousness in inani- mate objects and the plurality of inhabited worlds. 234 Dwight (President) President Dwight’s decisions of questions discussed by the Senior Class in Yale College in 1813 and 1814, from stenographic notes by T. Dwight, Jun. New York and Boston, 1833 10s6d 8vo. Cloth. Rare. The subjects of the debates were mostly politics and ethics, 235 Jonsius (J.) De scriptoribus historia philosophice libri IV. Frankfort, T. M. G6étzius, 1659 12s 6d 4to. Calf, one joint broken. (John) An Essay concerning human understanding. The Fourth Edi- tion, with large additions. London, Awn- sham, John Churchill and Samuel Man- ship, 1700 £1 Is: Folio. Old panelled calf, joints repaired. Portrait. Very fine:copy. 237 A Moral Essay upon the Soul of Man, in three parts, done out of French. London, H. Hills, jun., for H. Faithorne, 1687 15s 8vo. Contemporary calf. The author and translator of this philosophical treatise appear to be unknown. The British Museum only possesses the reprint of 1690.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156840_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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