Sales catalogue 13: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/9
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 13: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and this is one of the earliest editions of his principal works. ‘‘ He taught that physicians should study the human body and not accept tra- dition. He also stated that the cause of disease was to be looked for in the body itself and not in the fluids occasioned by the disease ”’ (Power-Thompson). Contains: De partium corporis humani descriptione. De spiritu et innato calido. De functionibus et humoribus (Physiologiae libri). 2. Pathologiae libri VII (De morborum causis, etc.). 3. Therapeu- tice (De venae sectione, purgandi ratione, etc.). Beautifully printed. Fine, large copy. On the title-page the following authograph-inscription : ‘* Sum ex libris Grevin pharmac”’. 91. FERRI, Alfonso. De ligni sancti multiplici medicina. 201 pp., 6 leaves. With printer’s device. 8vo. Limp vellum. Basel, Bebelius, 1538. | Frs. 150.— Proksch III, 546. Harrisse Add. 116 only quotes the 1537 edition. Rare and early work on the healing of syphilis by the Guaiacum. Ferri was papal physician under Paul III. The book’s four chapters are the following: De ligni sancti natura et praeparatione. De aegritudinibus a capite ad pedes. De morbo gallico. De vini exhibitione. The following passages relate to AMERICA: (p. 3) Lignum illud quod vulgo sanctum alias iodicum appellatur, ab insulis affertur in inte- riori oceano aetate nostra repertis, unde etiam morbus Gallicus ad nos manavit, antea nostris terris incognitus; (p. 13) Ex novis insulis plures ferre cognovimus lignum sanctum.... Nam et ex insula affertur, cui nomen inditum est sancti Joannis et ex insula sancti Dominici et ex insula sanctae crucis.... : Nice copy. — A copy of the same edition of this work is priced in a recent French catalogue of medical books French Franes 2500.— = 500 Swiss Frances. 92. FERRI, Alfonso. De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione libri quatuor. Hieronymi Fracastorii syphilis, sive morbus Gallicus. 168 pp., 28 leaves. Printer’s device. 16mo. Lyons, J. Frellonius, 1547. Bound up with: FUCHS, Leonhard. De curandi ratione seu de sanandis totius humani corporis eiusdemque partium tam internis quam externis malis. 250 pp., 3 leaves. With several full-page cuts in the text part of which represents dental instruments, surgical instruments, etc. 16mo. Lyons, (1553). CELSUS, Cornelius. De re medica libri octo. Q. Sereni liber de medicina. Q. Rhemnii de ponderibus et mensuris liber. 581 pp., 12 leaves. Printer’s device. 16mo. Lyons, Tornaesius, 1549. The three books in one vol. Very nice original binding, wooden boards covered with blind tooled pigskin, pretty large border of flowers with ornaments in the centre, original clasps. Frs. 360.— 1. Unknown to Harrisse. Important book on the healing of syphilis by the ‘‘ Lignum sanctum (Guiacan) ”. Contains several passages on America. We quote only: ‘‘ Lignum illud quod vulgo sanctum alias indicum appellatur, ab insulis affertur in interiori oceano aetate nostra repertis unde etiam morbus ille qui gallicus dicitur ad nos manavit, antea Prices in Swiss Francs
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