Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Antidotum melancholiæ, secunda pars

Schola curiositatis sive antidotum melancholiæ joco serium

Francofurti [Frankfurt am Main] : Impensis Joannis Bencardi, bibliopolæ, 1670.

8 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 14 cm (12mo)

Signed folded added engraved allegorical title-plate reads "Schola Curiositatis Sive Antidotum Melancholiæ Joco Serium", imprint "Francofurti apud Joannem Bencard Bibliop. Ao. i670"

Issued also as part 2 of Antidotum melancholiæ joco serium inspice, volve, vale (Frankfurt am Main, Bencard, 1667; 2nd ed. 1668) An alternative title to the present work reads Antidoti melancholiæ, secunda pars ... . At least two undated editions of both parts were later published as (1) Schola curiositatis sive antidotum melancholiæ joco serium ... (imprint "Eben im Jahr, als dieses nöhtig war"); and (2) "Schola curiositatis sive anti todum [sic] ... editio tertia ... ", the title in both cases stating that the work is " ... vermehrt und verbessert von vorigen Authore Germanus Warheit ... ".

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: E.M. Lawson 251 Note: Binding: C19th half roan