Early medical books, Catalogue 13

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/76
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Early medical books, Catalogue 13. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment of a few instruments and medical utensils ’’ (Neuburger-Playfair). A few leaves insignificantly browned. Some old marginal annota- tions. The woodcut slightly cropped at the margins as usual, but a very good copy in a nice binding. 325. MASCAGNI, Paolo. Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et ichnographia. 2 leaves and 138 pp. With 27 magnificent full-page plates and 14 outline plates. With hand- some engraved border around the dedication leaf and pretty vi- gnette on title-page. Royal folio. Old calf. Siena, 1787. Frs. 135.— ‘¢ Mascagni’s eternal fame is due to his magnificent atlas of the lym- phatics ’’ (Garrison). ‘¢ This work contained forty-one copper engravings in folio. Ma- . scagni had been able to induce his artist and engraver, Ciro Santi (Cyrus Sanctius) of Bologna, to move to Siena to do work for him there. The plates show a fine and careful workmanship and a faithful and truly masterful representation of the lymphatics ’’ (Choulant-Frank, p. 315-316). 326. MASSA, Nicola. Anatomiae liber introductorius, in quo quamplurimae partes, actiones, atque utilitates humani corporis, nune primum manifestantur. 108 leaves. Quarto. Beautiful original (German) binding of richly stamped vellum showing the portraits of Saint Lucas, Johannes, Marcus, etc. on sides and the portrait of a woman in the centre. Venice, J. Zillettus, 1559 (dated at the end Venice, 1536). Frs. 325,— All editions of this very interesting and little known anato- mical text-book are very rare. Massa (died 1569) practiced at Venice. ‘‘ Author of works on the prostate (the first book on this subject) and on contagious diseases, in- cluding plague, small-pox and syphilis. Discovered the lymphatics of kidney ’’ (Power-Thompson). We mention the following chapters: De modo secandi ventrem’ in- feriorem. De anatomia intestinorum incipiendo a recto intestino. De anatomia splenis. De anatomia epatis. De anatomia venae chilis. De sectione renum. De anatomia vasorum feminis. De dissectione uteri. De anatomia palati. De anatomia ossis cranei. De sectione panniculo- rum. De dissectione aurium. De anatomia ossium. Etc. Ete. Bound up with: Massa: Liber de febre pestilentiali ac de morbillis. Venice, 1556 and Clivolus: De balneorum naturalium viribus, Lyons, 1552. Very fine copy in its fine original binding. 327. VESALIUS, A.-INGRASSIAS, Johannes Philippus. Quaestio de purgatione per medicamentum atque obiter etiam de sanguinis missione, an sexta morbi die fieri possint. Ilustrissimi Ducis Terraenovae casus enarratio et curatio. E quibus tum pe- netrantis in thorace vulneris, tum fistulae curandae methodus elucescit. Quaestio utrum victus a principio ad statum usque procedere debeat subtiliando. 4 leaves, 68 pp., 101 pp., 112 pp. Quarto. Modern wrappers. Venice, 1568. Frs. 200.— Extremely rare Vesalianum. Roth 389, Feyfer IX, p. 67, 3. Contains the first edition of the following treatise of Vesalius: Prices in Swiss Francs
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