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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initial. Quarto. Venice, Johannes Hamman, 1499. | Bound up with: © DUNS SCOTUS, J. Quaestiones aureae ac utiles elencho- rum Aristotelis. Black letter. Two cols. 50 lines. 32 leaves. Quarto. Venice, Johannes Hamman, 1499. I: Only described by Hain 6451 and Brit. Mus. V, p. 428. Not Proctor or Pellechet. Only one copy in U. 8. A. according to Census. II: Only described by Hain 6439 and Brit. Mus. V, p. 428. Not Pellechet. No copy in U. S. A. according to Census. Very rare, especially to find both works together. Only the first leaf of the first work missing. Fine copies. 8. HENRICUS DE HASSIA. Vocabularius bibliae. Black letter. 32-36 lines. 279 leaves (the first blank wanting). With the beautiful complete Roman alphabet, the first used by this printer, each letter measuring 57 X 50 mm. Folio. Fine sixteenth century German binding, stamped pigskin adorned with two large Frs. 1.350. — Hain 8396. Proctor 2513. Brit. Mus. II, p. 525. Voull. Berl. 2624. No copy in U. S. A. according to Census. Eiditio princeps. Henricus de Hassia (de Langenstein), 1325-97, taught at the Sor- bonne and at Vienna natural sciences and theology. This voluminous encyclopaedia is of great medical interest. We only mention: ‘‘ Abortivus dicitur non suo tempore ortus, alvus dicitur -venter ab albedine, Caparis... radix eius... dolorem dentium compescit cecitas, cicatrix est obductio vulnerum, colera, collirium dicitur unctio ad detergendas feces oculorum, dissenteria... ulceratio intestini, fusus est instrumentum nendi... seminis fluxuum et lepram, lactuca... nutrientes feminas implet et in viris veneris usum coheret, lepra, malagma dicitur emplastrum, menstruum, paralisis, pestis, pupilla, uterus, vulva’’, etc. ete. Besides this book is a beautiful and very early specimen of Johann Zainer’s typographical art, printed with types similar to those of his “brother Giinther at Augsburg. Of particular interest is the famous com- plete Roman alphabet, the first used by the printer; each letter mea- suring 57x50 mm. --- Last leaf waterstained, but a fine and sound copy on unusually strong paper. Very scarce. cerimnas Hippocratis et super commentum Galieni. Black letter. Two cols. 66-67 lines. 160_leaves. Nice woodcut initials. Printer’s device on black ground at the end. Folio. Venice, Bonetus Loca- tellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1498. — Bound up with: HUGO _SENENSIS. Expositio super libros Tegni Galieni. Black letter. Two cols. 66 lines. 94 leaves, iast blank. Nice wood- Prices in Swiss Francs ae oe ee |e yee SP er ° mF . oa ‘< » are renee, -o a eo, » fs 2 3 : © a . dee: & }- a os 5 ‘ P ‘ we f Where ( wy iia i¢ es 2 ee = a a: = ae ~~ + 4 ak , oer PP 4 ft FT e , ces a - - 25 Oa, ak oy LAR i‘ BLEND pron cna ‘Tr a Qaa.e, ht a zc ~ .. Nov tn = : : E ‘™ < iy) $ ~

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