Sales catalogue 13: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/9
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 13: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Catalogue XIII. 1929. EARLY MEDICAL BOOKS PART VIII. (Extensive index to this catalogue p. 124). 1. ABERCROMBY, David. De variatione ac varietate pul- sus observationes. Acc. nova medicinae tum speculativae, tum practicae clavis. Sive ars explorandi medicas plantarum facultates ex solo sapore. 6 leaves, 54 pp., 7 leaves, 36 pp., 2 leaves. 8vo. Modern half vellum. London, 8. Smith, 1685. Swiss Frs. 30.— Dedicated to Boyle. — Nice copy. 2. AETIUS, Amideus. Contractae ex veteribus medicinae sermones XVI. Per Janum Cornarium latine conscripti. Two stout vols. I: 8 and 472 leaves (including last two blank leaves); II: lea- ves 473-920; 30 leaves. With printer’s device on both titles. De- vices on last leaves of both vols. 8vo. Old calf. Venice, ex offi- cina Farrea, 1543 and 1544. Frs. 90.— Choulant, Handbuch, p. 134: ‘* Sehr selten ”’’. Very rare, especially if containing also the second volume printed separately in 1544. Early edition of Aetius’ work usually called the Tetrabiblion, which is one of the chief authorities we know of the work of Rufus of Ephe- sus and Leonides on surgery, and of Soranus and Philumenus on gyne- cology and obstetrics. It was published for the first time in Venice (only the Greek text). The Greek text of most of the last eight of these 16 books is still unprinted. Cornarius’ translation of Aetius is still the best. Aetius’ work contains the best account of diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and teeth in ancient literature. In surgery, he supplies many of the last passages in Oribasius and describes modes of procedure (ton- silotomy, urethrotomy, etc.), which are not to be found anywhere else. Nice copy. 3. (AETIUS). Hebenstreit, J. E. Anekdoton liber IX, cap. 28, (graece-latine), exhibens tenvioris intestini morbum quem ileon et chordapsum dicunt. 20 pp. 4to. Not bound. Leipzig, 1757. Frs. 22.— fare. Choulant, Handbuch, p. 135. Contains the first edition of the Greek text and Latin translation of the chapter 28 from the IX. book after a manuscript now in the Ratsbibliothek of Leipzig. Aetius, see also nr. 193. Prices in Swiss Francs