Sales catalogue 13: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/9
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    antiqua, id est brevis enarratio ortus et progressus artis ‘medicae. — Rerum inventarum onomasticon. Two parts. 16 leaves, 250 pp., 6 leaves, 85 pp. With nice allegorical frontispiece. Small 8vo. Ori- ginal limp vellum. Amsterdam, 1684. Frs. 22.— Short history of the medical discoveries made in the 17th century. — First edition. Nice copy. Alpagus, A., see nr. 23. 11. AMMAN, Conrad. Dissertatio de loquela quam non solum vox humana et loquendi articium ex originibus suis eruuntur, sed et traduntur media, quibus ii, qui ab incunabulis surdi et muti fuerunt, loquelam adipisci, quique difficulter loquuntur, vitia sua emendare possint. 12 leaves, 120 pp. With folding table. 12mo. Modern half vellum. Amsterdam, 1700. Frs. 75.— This work on the education of deaf-mutes is one of the earliest treatises of importance on this subject. The ingenious method of Johann Conrad Amman (1669-1724) described in this work, is a very remarkable feature of social medicine in this period. — Searee. 12. ANTIDOTARIUM BONONIENSE. 4 leaves, 408 pp., 4 leaves. Quarto. Original vellum. Bologna, 1674. Frs. 20.— Very fine copy of this well known pharmaceutical work. Apuleius, see nr. 283. 13. ARDOYNO, Santes (Santes de Ardoynis). Opus de ve- nenis. In quo naturalis primum historia venenatorum proponitur (quam Theriacam Graeci vocant). Deinde Alexipharmacia. — Pon- zetti, Ferdinando. De venenis libri tres. 8 leaves, 573 pp., 7 lea- ves. With initial letters. Folio. Old limp vellum. Basel, Henric Petrus, 1562. Frs. 60.— Brunet I, 390: ‘‘ Assez recherché et peu commun ’”’. Santes Ardoyno of Pesaro, physician in Venice studied drugs and their actions. The result of his work is embodied in ‘‘ De venenis ”’, written about 1425, which, though throughout partaking of the character of a compilation, is nevertheless of a great historical interest (Neuburger), — Cardinal Ponzetti died in 1527. Both books are early contributions to the history of toxicology. They were first published in 1492, but apparently never reprinted before the present edition. — Somewhat browned as usual, but good copy. 14. ARETAEUS Cappadox. Libri VIII (de causis et signis acutorum et diuturnorum morborum et affectuum, de eorundum curatione). — Rufus Ephesus. De hominis partibus libri III. 8 lea- ves, 554 pp., 7 leaves. 12mo. Half vellum. Paris, G. Morelius and J. Puteanus, 1554. Frs. 50.— Choulant, Handbuch, p. 86. Aretaeus is the most important source for the teachings of the Pneumatic school. As a clinician he ranks next to Hippocrates in Prices in Swiss Francs