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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    Go of the 8..G. L. mentions only 8 plates, four of which outline, The three splendid additional plates show the external parts of man and woman and are engraved by Scotin. The other plates are engraved by S. C. Muller. Apparently first edition. : Fine copies of both books with the plates in unusually fresh im- pressions. Albinus, B. 8., see also nr. 86. 7. ALDINI, Giovanni. Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une serie d’expériences faites en présence des commissaires de 1’ Institut National de France, et en divers amphi- théatres anatomiques de Londres. Two parts in one vol. 3 leaves, 10 pp., 398 pp. With 10 folding plates (experiments). Royal Ato. Very fine original binding of marbled calf with gilt borders on sides, gilt edges. Paris, Fournier fils, 1804. Frs. 100.— Very fine dedications-copy with the following autograph dedication by the author: Au citoyen Consul Cambaceres comme témoignage de la plus haute estime et profond respect l’auteur. Contains (pp. 104-165): Application du Galvanisme a4 la médecine. Aldini (1762-1834) was a nephew of Galvani and contributed largely towards popularising the latter’s discoveries. He also was the first to propose the utilisation of the tides for mechanical purposes. Some expe- riments (on the body of an executed man) were of rather a gruesome nature; they constituted, however the first experiments on the dead human body with the galvanic current. -—- Splendid copy. 8. ALDINI, Giovanni. Essai théorique et expérimentale sur le galvanisme avec une série d’expériences. Two vols. 3 leaves, 16 pp., 350 pp., 2 leaves, 12 pp., 330 pp. With 10 folding plates. 8vo. Original wrappers. Paris, Fournier fils, 1804. Frs. 45.— Another 8vo-edition of the same work with the same illustration. — Entirely uncut and unopened copy. 9. ALEXANDER BENEDICTUS, Paeantius (Alessandro Benedetti). De observatione in pestilentia. Roman letter. 26 lines. 28 leaves, last of which blank. Quarto. Modern vellum. Venice, Joh. and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1493. Frs. 600.— Hain 807. Gesamtkatalog 864. Pellechet 456. Brit. Mus. V, p. 364. Proctor. 4530. Voull. Berl. 3874. Klebs-Droz, Remedies against the pla- gue, nr. 6. Editio princeps and the only edition published in the 15th cen- tury, being no copy known from the Rome — edition, 1490 (confer Klebs and Gesamtkatatog). Alessandro Benedetti (1460-1525), physician to Emperor Maximilian, was the founder of the celebrated anatomic theatre at Padua. He ope- rated for hernia, stone and rhinoplasty. He wrote on anatomy and on plague. . Our copy of this very rare work is cropped at the top blank margins except this insignificant flaw it is an unusually fine and fresh copy with extremely wide side-and bottom margins (49 x 39 mm.). Alexander Benedictus, anatomice, 1528, 1533, see supplement. Alexander of Tralles, see nr. 193. Prices in Swiss Francs
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