Sales catalogue 485: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/48
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 485: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1495 A.D. [13] GORDONIO (Bernardo). Lilio de medicina. [With four other medical tracts by the same author. | First EpItrIoNn IN SPANISH. Brack Lerrer, double columns, 54 lines and head-line to a full page. A magnificent woodcut occupies above three-quarters of the utle-page. It represents two angels clothed in long and ample robes. With one hand they support between them a pot, from which issue six tall shoots of white-lily disposed fan-wise. Wiaith the other hand they extend a scroll bearing the ttle of the work. The text decorated with ornamental woodcut initials. Printers’ device below the colo- phon to “ Lilio de Medicina’’ and again at the end of the final tract. Folio. Sixteenth-century vellum binding. Sevilla, Menardo Ungut and Stanislas Polono, 18 April, 1495. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, FRONTISPIECE.) £750 Haebler 800. Hain 7802 (without seeing it). Pellechet 5279. Proctor 9535. A complete copy of the First Edition in Spanish of Gordonio’s Lilio de Medicina, with which were printed four other medical tracts by the same author: Las tablas delos ingenios; el Regimiento de las agudas; Tractado delos minos con el Regimiento del amo; Las pronos- ticas. Complete copies of this voluminous medical work are extremely rare; some lack the table and others all that comes after the Lilio de Medicina. The British Museum copy and that in the Bibliothéque Nationale de France are among the imperfect ones. Haebler was only able to record three copies in the Iberian Peninsular and three outside. Bernard Gordon was a celebrated doctor of the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth century. His famous Lilio de Medicina, a complete treatise on the manner of curing all the maladies then known, was commenced, according to his preface, at Montpellier in July, 1805. ONLY ONE copy In U.S.A. (accorDING To CENSUS), VIZ., IN THE LIBRARY OF THE Hispanic Society or AMERICA.
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