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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    ~ (d study the best editions are probably those of Bologna of 1521 and Pavia, 1550’ (Singer, Fsc. p. 56). ‘it Matthaeus Corti (about 1526-742), was physician at the Universities of Padua, Bologna, Florence, and Pisa. At the end of the commentary there is added a treatise by Curtius: De musculis, earumque partibus, motibus ac dissectione, compendium. -— Blank corner of the title gone and repaired, some faint waterstains, otherwise a fine and large copy. — Rare. Mundinus, see also Nr. 153. 204. NEMESIUS EPISCOPUS. De natura hominis liber unus. Two parts. Greek and Latin text. 182 pp., 5 leaves, 142 pp. Printer’s device. 8vo. Old limp vellum. Antwerp, Plantin, 1565. Fr... 50.— Editio princeps. Brunet 1V, 37: ‘‘ Premiére edition du texte grec de ce tiaité; elle est rare ’’. Choulant, Handbuch, p. 126-27: ‘‘ Erste sehr seltene Ausgabe des griechischen Textes 7, A nice, complete copy including the Errata on p. 181 often missing. This work is a compen- dium of the physiology of that time, mixed up with theological and te- leological ideas. Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of the blood has been supposed for a long time to have been taken from Ne- mesius (p. 112, chapter 24 of our edition). Nicander, see Nr. 122. Nicolaus Salernitanus, see Nr. 192. 205. NONNIUS, Lodovicus. Diaeteticon sive de re cibaria libri IV. 12 leaves, 526 pp., 1 leaf. With engraved title. 4to. Ori- ginal vellum. Antwerp, 1645. Frs.. 22.—= Good work on cookery and dietetics. — Fine copy. 206. NUCK, Anton. Sialographia et ductuum aquosorum anatome nova. Acc. defensio ductuum aquosorum nee non fons salivalis novus. 7 leaves, 158 pp., 8 leaves. With frontispiece and 6 anatomical folding-plates. 8vo. Original calf. Leyde, 1690. Frs. 30.— Nuck’s classical work on ducts and glands. It is devoted to the author’s investigations on glands and ducts and gives the description of some of his discoveries (on salivary ducts and glands; on orbitary glands of the dog, ete.). — Some leaves brownstained. Nyman, G., see Nr. 226. 207. ORIBASIUS. Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem, quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continetur. Bapt. Rasario interprete. 527 pp. Printer’s device. 16mo. Old calf. Paris, Parvus, 1554. Ers...75.— Choulant Handbuch, p. 124. Rare. First Latin edition of this highly important work. Oribasius (326-403) was the friend and body-physician to the Emperor Julian the Apostate. ‘‘ Oribasius had been the first to include under the name Synopsis all knowledge of medical science accumulated up to his time, arranged according to its various branches. He undertook this work Prices in Swiss Francs
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