Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
08 January 1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/20
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    gap hts A Gere ee pte,* fee z January 8, 1932. Nid WEEKLY LIST OF PrwEY ME Dre AE BOOKS: STANDARD WORKS PIONEERS OF MEDICAL SCIENGE FROM 1478 TO-1850 (H-Z) offered for sale by R. LIER & C! FIRENZE C125) Italy Via dei Bardi, 32 Telegraphic and Cable Address: Lierco=Firenze? . Pee os - France ! Soil. copy of this aiéudard. disc in its : i original binding. 120. HUTTEN. Ulrich von. De Giaiaci medicina et morbo Gallico liber. 44 leaves. Beautiful woodcut border round the title and nice woodcut initials. Quarto. Modern vellum. Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, 1524. Frs. 525. — Brunet, III, 391. Unknown to Harrisse. Proksch I, pelt: ‘Osler, Bibl. nr. 4977. VERY RARE. | | @5V LRICHI DE HVI- TEN EQ.DE GVAs IACL MEDICINA ET MORBO Hutten’s book on syphilis ant its AMERICAN- GALLICO INDIAN remedy “ Guaiacum Wood ”, is one of LIBER. the most famous works in medical literature. : The author gives an elaborate account of the discovery ae ° of the healing effects of Guaiacum Wood ‘‘ on the ; island of Cuba, which lies towards the West near > America, the land which extends towards midnight with its whole length and was also discovered in ; recent years, with the other recently discovered islands a which were unknown to our ancestors ’’. (Fourth chapter: Guaiaci Descriptio et eius inventio ac no- men). — ‘‘ Ulrich von Hutten, the greatest name after Luther and Erasmus in the Reformation, suffered with the new disease for many years...... Apart ie altogether from the uniyue interest attaching to 5 Hutten as a man, his little book is well worth reading, : as giving a graphic first-hand account of syphilis as it appeared early in the sixteenth century ’’ (Osler). — A few interesting contemporary marginal annota- tions. A very fine and fresh copy. — See repro- duction hereby. VNVS. ANNO M. D, Xx Hutten, 1524, nr. 120 eee ESET Prices in Swiss Francs including all incidental export expenses: s 7 y “ . a ‘ a ope x a * » wos rr. eS —.- heen. eee {. Sel eS A rk dt 2 t é “Ney