Sales catalogue 12: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 12: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    candros of Colophon have survived. The Alexipharmaca deal with intoxi- cations through vegetable (also animal and mineral) poisons and the ap- propriate antidotes. Nicandros is the first writer to mention the use of the leech ’’ (Neuburger). — Rare. 123. GREW, Nehemiah. Museum regalis societatis or a ca- talogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities be- longing to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge. — The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts. Two parts. 6 leaves, 386 pp., 1 leaf, 1 leaf, 43 pp. With 31 interesting full- page plates and a portrait of Daniel OCollwall. Folio. Old calf. London, Rawlins, 1681. Frs. 55.— Pritze] 3558. First edition. Grew was secretary of the Royal Society. The first part of the book is subdivided as follows: Humane rarities; quadripeds; serpents; birds; fishes; shells; insects; trees; shrubs; etc.; herbs; mosses ; mushroms; ete. stones; metalls; mineral principles; things relating to chemistry, ma- thematics, mechanics, etc. — The second part is a good treatise on com- parative anatomy. — Fine large copy with autogr. inscription of A. Adams. 124. GRUNLING, Philippus. Florilegium Hippocrateo-Galeno- chimicum novum et quasi prodromis medicinae practicae, in quo praescribitur medicamentorum tum chymicorum e metallis, mine- ralibus et vegetalibus tum hippocratico-galenicorum conficiendorum certa ratio. 10 leaves, 578 pp., 6 leaves. With engraved title and portrait of the author. 4to. Original vellum with the arms of the count of Windhay. Leipzig, 1665. Frs. 30.— First odition of a voluminous work of pharmaceutical, alchemical and medical interest. Wo only mention the following headings: De auro potabili anglico, de lapide philosophorum, medicamentis digestivis com- positis, de clysteribus, de spiritu absinthii, de oleo cinamoni, de landano opiato, de elexiri Paracelsi, de aqua ophtalmica ete. — Partly browned, but good copy. 125. GUIDI, Guido (Vidus Vidius). Opera omnia (including the Anatome and Chirurgia). Three stout vols. I: 6 leaves, 394 pp., 11 leaves; IL: 6 leaves, 504 pp., 8 leaves, 751 pp.. 12 leaves; III: 8 leaves, 320 pp., 6 leaves, 104 pp., 4 and 2 leaves, 312 pp., 6 leaves. With a great number of highly interesting woodcuts in the “ Ohirurgia”’, splendid engraved title for the Anatomia, plate re- presenting the anatomist’s armamentarium and 78 excellent anato- mical copper-plates. Printer’s devices. Folio. Fine original bindings, vellum with arabesques in the centre. Frankfurt, Wechel, 1626. Frs. 325.— Very rare edition of the Opera omnia in very fine, complete state in their original bindings. Choulant-Frank pp. 211-12. ‘‘The complete anatomic work which Guido left was not published until long after his death, and when, at last, it appeared it hardly re- ceived the attention that it deserved, and is now rarely seen. The plates Prices in Swiss Francs
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