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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    sium et Chilensium indole. — Jacobus Bontius. Historia naturalis et medica Indiae Orientalis. 12 leaves, 327 pp., 2 leaves, 226 pp., 1 leaf, 39 pp. With pretty engraved title showing a primeval forest with two natives and hundreds of very interesting large and small woodcuts in the text (plants, animals, scenes from the life of the natives, etc.). Folio. Half vellum. Amsterdam, Hlzevir, 1658. : Frs. 175,— Pritzel 7157. Second enlarged edition of this important woork on Brazilian medicine and natural history. This work gives us the really first extensive description of the natural history, life and medical situation of the natives in Brazil. Of great interest are the five book of Pison’s work, dealing exclu- sively with Brazilian medicine and natural history. Pison, in this work, was the first to describe yaws (babas), diseases of the natives, and exotic remedies. Many American remedies are described and depicted for the first time by him, and especially remarkable are the numerous woodcuts illustrating profusely the entire work. Bontius. This work is divided in six parts: De conservanda valetu- dine. Methodus medendi. Observationes e cadaveribus. Notae in Garciam ab Orta. Historia animalium. Historia plantarum. This is probably the first book on tropical diseases and especially on those of East India. Beriberi and tropical dysentery were described for the first time in this book. Bontius, a Dutch physician, lived for some time in Batavia, where he collected his observations. Margvavius’ two treatises contain at the end a Chilian dictionary. This work is rapidly becoming rare. A few insignif. brownstains, small blank portion of the title repaired, but fine, large copy. With au- togr. inscription: Ex bibliotheca D. Th. Hainemann. 1750. 924, PLATINA, Bartholomaeus de (Sacchi). De honesta vo- luptate et valetudine vel de obsoniis et arte coquinaria: libri decem. Roman letter (some Greek quotations). 30 lines. 88 leaves. With several woodcut initials. 4to. Old vellum. Venice, Bernardinus (de Vitalibus) Venetus, 1498. Frs. 700.— Hain 13055. Brit. Maus. V, 548. Reichling VI, p. 123. Not Vonul- liéme, Berlin. Not Proctor. Rare edition of the first printed cookery-book. It gives not only good recipes for preparing all sorts of dishes, pa- stries, meats, fishes and vegetables, but indicates also frequently their medical and dietetica! properties... We mention the following chapters: De pipere, de cariophilo, porro, coriandro, salvia, absyntio, conditura rosmarini, pimpinellae, acetosae, asparagi, de bove, agno, capra, cervo, ansere, hirundine, colambis, torta ex castaneis, riso, farre, de coquendis piscibus, pisces in gelu, de sedandis perturbationibus, ’’ etc. — ‘¢ Barth. Sieci (sic), who called himself Baptista Platina, the author of this and several other notable works (e. g. the lives of the Popes), was born at Piadena in 1421, ended his active career as librarian of the Vatican library, and died, presumably in Rome in 1481. He was the first librarian of whom history gives any particular account ’’ (Hawkins). — Bottom margins of two leaves mended, some interesting annotations by an early hand, a few leaves very insignificantly browned, but a fine and tall copy. Prices in Swiss Francs
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