Sales catalogue 550: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/99
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 550: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1678 1679 VERSTEGAN (Richard), fl. 1565-1620. Antiquary. A RestiruTIoN oF DecayED INTELLIGENCE, IN ANTIQUITIES; concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation. With copperplate engravings in the text. First Eprtion. Small gto. Original vellum. Printed at Antwerp, 1605. £5 5s Of Shakespearcan interest—referred to by Knight in his Notes on the ‘* Merchant of Venice.’’ VICARY (Thomas), d. 1561. Surgeon. THe ENGLISHMAN’S [TREAsuRE. With the true Anatomie of Mans Body: Compiled by that excellent Chyrurgion Mr. Thomas Vicary Esquire, Sergeant Chyrurgion to King Henry the 8. To K. Edward the 6. To Queene Mary, and to our late Soveraigne Lady Q Elizabeth. And also chiefe Chyrurgion to St. Bartholmewes Hospitall. | Whereunto are annexed many secrets appertaining to Chyrurgerie, with divers excellent approved Remedies for all Captaynes and Soudiers, that travell either by Water or Land: And Likewise for all Diseases, which are either.in Man or Woman. Also the rare Treasure of the English Bathes: Written by William Turner. Also also Oynt- ments and Plaisters; with especiall and approved remedies for the Plague, and Pestilent Fever, which never came to light before this present. By Gi Rig enter etc. Wlack Letter. Woodcut of skeleton. Small 4to. Bound by Riviere in vellum, g. e. Printed at London by B. Alsop, and Tho. Fawcet, 1626. £31 10s This book, as has been proved by Dr. J. F. Payne in an elaborate examination of its contents, is a transcript of a fourteenth century manuscript in English, which is itself based upon Lanfranc and Henri de Mondeville, with a few short additional passages. Its anatomy therefore belongs to the knowledge existing before Vesalius.