Sales catalogue 11: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/4
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 11: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    &8 was first published at Paris in 1581 in French. Our edition is translated and annotated by Bauhinus. At the end a treatise on a petrified embryo by Albosius with an interesting woodcut-plate. — A very few leaves slightly browned, but fine copy. On title the following inscription: « Alexandri Pfisteri su ». Ruellius, J. >see nr. 106. Ruffus Hphesius, see nr. 216. 259. RUYSCH, Frederik. Opera omnia anatomico-me- dico-chirurgica. Two stout vols. Weth frontisp., the fine portrait of the author engraved by Wandelaar, and 120 ex- cellent anatomical copper-plates; many figures in the tect. I. vol. Old vellum. II. vol. Original wrappers. Amsterdam, Jansson, 1721-1751. ee Lr SsetOoUr « For whimsical originality and exquisite delicacy of detail, the plates drawn by Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) deserve a special mention. Skeletons posed in quaintest attitudes, with appropriate mottoes of the « memento mo- ri » variety attached, surrounded by strange reptiles, stuffed monsters, dried plants, and deep-sea creatures, constituted the favorite decorative scheme of the old Dutch anatomist » (Garrison). « A master in the art of the minute injection of anatomical structures. The « Tunica Ruyschiana » of the eye commemorates his name. He gave the first description of bronchial vessels and vascular plexuses of the heart». It is quite impossible to find complete copies of the Opera omnia which are all published in different years. Our copy corresponds exactly to the de- scription given in the « Index Catalogue of the Surgeon » only with excep- tion of the Adversariorum decas prima-tertia, the « Thesaurus animalium » and a letter of Etmiiller which are missing. Besides our copy contains a. o. the important Thesaurus anatomicas (which wants often), the Opusculum anatomicum 1722, not mentioned by the Surgeon and four treatises are contained twice. Dampstains on the margins of several leaves of the second vol., some leaves slightly browned, but good copy. 260a. SABATTINI, Giambattista. Tavole anatomiche per i pittori, scultori, ed altri. Disegnate dal professore G. Guwiz- zardi per cura di G. Zecchi. 34 pp. of text. With 48 excellent copper-plates on 26 leaves. Large obl. folio. Original cloth. Bologna, 1841. Frs. 60.— The anatomical plates by Sabattini belong to the most beautiful anato- mical illustrations of the 19th century and are on the summit of achievement in anatomic pen-drawing. They are engraved by Antonio Gajani after the drawings of Giuseppe Guizzardi. Our edition is unknown to Choulant. The plates are relative to myology and osteology of the single parts of human body. Complete copies are rarely to be ‘found. Our complete copy, with exception of a few faint waterstains, is in very fine condition. 2600. RYFF, M. Gualtherius. Wahrhafftige icinstiiole und gerechte underweisung alle Latwergen, Confekt Conser- ven, einbeytzungen und einmachungen von mancherley friich- ten, blumen, kreuttern wie solche in den Apotecken gemacht werden.... wie dieselbigen ein yeder fiir sich selbs zubereytten soll. 110 leaves. With many calligraphical initials and full- page woodcut showing a bleeding man. 4to. Modern vellum. Strassburg, Balthasar, Beck, 1540. Frs. 175.— Apparently first edition of a rare and in that time most popular pharma- ceutical work. Ryff is erroneoussly judged to be only a famous plagiarist «On aceount of the strictures placed upon Ryff by Vesalius..... Rvff has Prices in Swiss Francs
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