Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GuaAIAcuM Woop. 1520 barlichen Artzney des Holtz Guiacum genant und wie man die Frantzosen oder Blatteren heilen sol. Durch Thomam Murner geteutschet und verdolmetschet. FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Black Letter. With fine woodcut on title- page showing two Patients being led by a physician to a dealer in Guaiacum wood. 4to. Vellum. Strassburg, Johann Grieninger, 1510. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXI.). £125 First Edition in German of Hutten’s famous book on Syphilis and its American-Indian remedy ‘‘guaiacum wood.’’ The Author gives an elaborate account of the discovery of the healing effects of Guaiacum Wood “‘ on the island of Cuba, which lies towards the West near America, the land which extends towards midnight with its whole length and was also discovered in recent years with the other recently discovered islands which were unknown to our ancestors.’’ Wir THE Famous Map sHowING “‘ AMERICA.” A.D. [3911] SOLINUS (Catus Julius). CAMERS (Joannes). Joannis Camertis Minoritani, Artium, et Sacrae Theologiae Doc- toris, in C. Julii Solini TOAYISTOPA enarrationes. Decorative woodcut border to title, and two printer’s devices. With the famous folding woodcut cordiform map of the world, shewing the New World designated as ‘‘ America,’’ (which is usually missing). This map is the earliest containing the name ‘‘ America ’”’ (with the exception of the Waldseemuller). Folio. Magnificent copy in full crimson levant morocco, gilt, g. @., enstde dentelles. Vienna, Joannes Singrenius, 1520. (SEE ILLUSTRATIONS, PLATES Nos. XXII. AND XXIII.). £210 Harrisse 108. Church Catalogue 45. John Carter Brown 64. An exceedingly scarce work with the famous world map by Peter Apian, which is usually missing. With but one exception (the Waldseemiiller Map), this
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