Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/11
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    162. 163. 164, AES? « Riau GALENUS. De medicamentorum compositione libri decem. Joanne Guinterio Andernaco interprete. 24 and 207 leaves. With Giunti’s fine device on title. Large 8vo. Old boards. Venice, Giunti, 1536. Frs. 40,— A scarce edition of Galen’s pharmaceutical work, one of the first commen- ted by Giinther of Andernach. Folios 97-106 deal entirely with dentistry, de- scribing a. 0. many dentifrices. ‘‘ Galen defines medicaments as substances which, in contra-distinction to food, give rise to certain changes in the orga- nism, and he divides them into three classes ’’. — A few quires browned, but nice copy. GALENUS. De ratione curandi ad Glauconem libri duo, inter- prete Martino Acakia Catalaunensi. 8 leaves, 303 pp. With Coli- naeus’ fine device. 4to. Modern vellum. Paris, Colinaeus, 1588. Frs. 55.— Fine specimen of Colinaeus’ famous press. Last two leaves slightly stained. On the title-page the following autho- graph-inscription: Gaspardus Amiortus, 1540. — Rare. GALENUS. Definitiones medicae, Iona Philologo interprete. 24 and 2 leaves. With printer’s device. 8vo. Modern vellum. Lyons, Fr. Justus, 1539. Frs. 32.— GALENUS. De motu musculorum libri duo. Nic. Leoniceno in- terprete, per J. Sylviwm illustratnus. 120 pp., 4 leaves. Printer’s device. Lyons, Rovillius, 1549. Bound up with: Galenus. In Hippocratis librum de natura hominis commentarius. 176 pp. Printer’s device. Lyons, Rovillius, 1549. Bound up with: Galenus. De elementis libri duo. J. Sylvio interprete. 3 leaves, 154 pp. Printer’s device. Lyons, Rovillius, 1550. Three works bound together. Very nice original binding of blind tooled pigskin showing borders of heads and flowers. 16mo. Frs, 75.— I: ‘* As regards the muscular system there can be little doubt that Ga- len’s work was in large part of a really pioneer character. He wrote a special book On the anatomy of the muscles. Throughout his work the muscles are perhaps the structures that he described most accurately ”. (Singer). — Blank piece of one leaf cut off. Nice copies in their pretty original binding. GALENUS. De elementis libri duo. Victore Trincavelio interprete. 3 leaves, 154 pp. Lyons, 1558. Bound up with: Galenus. De naturalibus facultatibus libri tres. Thoma Linacro interprete. Acc. Iac. Sylvii scholia. 8 leaves, 205 pp., 8 leaves. Lyons, 1550. Galenus. De diebus decretoriis libri tres. Io. Guinterio Andernaco interprete. 154 pp., 3 leaves. Lyons, 1550. The three works in one vol. 16mo. Old limp vellum. Frs. 50.—
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