Sales catalogue 15: R Lier & Co

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 15: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~ee809, TARIN, P. Myo-graphie ou description des muscles du orps humain. 1 leaf, 171 pp. With 38 engraved plates, 9 of which First edition. With Latin and French text. The first 9 plates (in- cluding 9 outline-plates) are engraved copies of Albinus’ plates. ‘¢ Pierre Tarin (1725-61), French physician and anatomist. He is remembered by the ‘ valves of Tarin’, part of the ependymal roof of the fourth ventricle ’? (Power-Thompson). 310. TAYLOR, John. Nova nosographia ophtalmica, hoc est accurata recensio ducentorum et quadraginta trium affectuum, qui oculum humanum partesque vicinas laedere possunt. 2 leaves, 66 pp. With 22 very interesting copper-plates showing over 250 representations of the eye in its various diseases. Folio. Half calf. Hamburg and Leipzig, 1766. Frs. 125. — “eine taints Rare. RIE The remarkable plates are engraved by Martini de Drazowa: The Chevalier John Taylor (1708-67) was the most important quack oculist of his day. ‘‘ Taylor, the son of a female apothecar of Norwich, had actually worked with Cheselden at St. Thomas’s and had invented a cataract needle and other instruments, but failing of success in London, decided for the adventurous career of a roving oculist. Undoubtedly he possessed some skill in eye-surgery. He numbered even Gibbon and Haendel among his patients. Taylor’s writings, translated into many languages, contain many things in advance of his time, e. g. the first delineation of cornical cornea after that of Duddel ’’ (Garrison). — Very fine copy. Themistius, see nr. 18. 311. TISSOT. Traité des nerfs et des leurs maladies. 4 vols. 1 leaf, 64 pp., 416 pp., 3 leaves, 346 pp., 1 leaf, 2 leaves, 444 pp., 1 leaf, 464 pp. 8vo. Old calf. Lausanne, 1784. Frs. 15. — 312. (TORINUS, Albanus). Albani Torini collectio. De re medica huic volumini insunt: Sorani in artem medendi isagoge. Oribasii de victus ratione. Plinii de re medica libri V. APULEI,. DE HERBARUM VIRTUTIBUS. Libellus de betonica. 12 and 126 leaves. With two fine metal borders by Jacob Faber after Hans Holbein. Numerous woodcut initial letters. Printer’s devices. Folio. Modern half vellum. Basel, A. Cratander, 1528. Frs. 150. — Choulant, Handbuch, p. 405-406: ‘* Seltene und wegen Plinius, und Apuleius gesuchte Sammlung, typographisch gut ausgestattet ’’. — The editor Alban Thorer (Albanus Torinus) of Winterthur (1489-1550) was professor of medicine at Basel. First edition of the tract ascribed to Soranus. According to Chou- lant, it is spurious and of later origin. Only edition of Oribasius’ tract. Of the Apuleius Barbarus exists only one earlier edition and another from the same year, printed at Paris. The libellus ‘“ de
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