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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    192. 193, 194, uke y Batcale HELMONT, Johann Baptista van. Ortus medicinae, id ost initia physicae inaudita, progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultio- nem, ad vitam longam. Acc. de lithiasi, febribus et peste (Opuscula medica inaudita). 11 leaves, 487 and 192 pp., 29 leaves. With allegorical engraved frontispiece showing in the upper part the me- daillon-portraits of the author and his son. Folio. Old half vellum. Lyons, 1655. Frs, 65.— Good folio edition. . “The founder of the Jatrochemical School was the Belgian mystic Jean Baptiste van Helmont. He was the first to recognize the physiologic impor- tance of ferments and gases, and his knowledge of the bile, the gastric juice, and the acids of the stomach was considerable ’’. (Garrison). ‘‘ Van Helmont’s chemical experiments and his chemical theories exerted a powerful influence on the chemists of his century. No chemist is cited more frequently nor with higher respect ’’ (Stillman). — Very browned on account of the poor quality of the paper. HELMONT, J. van. Ortus medicinae id est initia physicae inaudita, progressus medicinae novus in morborum ultionem ad vitam longam. Acc. opuscula medica inaudita; 11 leaves, 487 pp., 192 pp., index. With engraved title. Folio. Old calf. Lyons, Hu- guetan et Barbier, 1667. Frs. 55.— Confer the preceding item. HELMONT, J. B. Van. Les oeuvres de medecine et physique, pour la guerison assurée des maladies. 4 leaves, 396 pp. Printer’s device. 4to. Vellum. Lyons, 1671. Frs. 22.— Good French edition. — Browned, id est tractatus de physiognomia. 52 leaves, 244 pp., 2 leaves. 8vo. With 9 engraved portraits (among others portraits of Vesalius, Montanus ete.) and 1 folding table. Amsterdam, 1676. Bound up with: ELSHOLTIUS, J. S. Anthropometria sive de mutua membrorum corporis humani proportione et naevorum harmonia. 5 leaves, 266 pp., 1 leaf. With frontispiece showing the author’s portrait and 7 interesting copper plates (homo symmetrus, heads, hands ete.). 8vo. Frankfurt (Oder), 1663. Bound up with: LAUREMBERGIUS, P. Pasicompse nova, id est delineatio pul- chritudinis. 9 leaves, 151 pp. 8vo. Rostock, 1672. Three works in one vol. Calf. Frs. 60.— Three interesting different works on physiognomy bound together. I. Helvetius. Caillet 5049. Helvetius, a famous physician and alchimist, died in 1709. In this treatise he connects e. g. the human physiognomies with astrological views (de lunaticae complexionis physiognomia, etc.), he wants his book almost to be considered as a ‘* Magia Christiana ’’. As phy- siognomical examples, the book gives the portraits of famous physicians as
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