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Credit: Sales catalogue 485: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1494 A.D. WITH IMPORTANT SECTIONS DEVOTED TO MEDICINE. [11] BARTHOLOMAEUS DE GLANVILLA, ANGLI- CUS. De las Propriedades de las Cosas. El libro de proprietatibus Rerum en Romance. (In Spanish.) Brack Lerrer, double columns, 46-47 lines to a full page. With the woodcut Arms of Spain, sixteen very remarkable large woodcuts and the large woodcut printer's device on a black ground. Woodcut initial letters. Head-lines. Folio. Calf. Toulouse, Henri Mayer, 18th September, 1494. (SEE ILLustratTions, PLates Nos. V. and VI.). £350 Hain 2523 (without seeing it). Proctor 8722. Pellechet 1887. Title re-margined; text of last leaf slightly repaired, and a few letters of text in three other leaves restored. Very rare edition of this famous encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, from a rare French press. Books 5, 6, and 7 are anatomical and medical: Book 5, 66 chapters, Concerning the human body and its members; Book 6, 29 chapters, Concerning the ages [of man] and their characteristics; Book 7, 70 chapters, Concerning the diseases. Especially interesting are the large and very curious woodcuts, several of which are of medical interest, such as a post-mortem examination of a corpse, or dissection. 1495 A.D. | ITALIAN MS. ON VETERINARY SURGERY. [12] HIPPOCRATES. La Marschalcheria de Ypocrate.. Italian manuscript in 484 chapters on 108 pages of paper, written by an Italian hand in the fifteenth century. Double columns, initials in red and black, 31 lines to a full page, and some illuminated letters in gold and colours, and with the Arms of Cardinal Gonzaga and illuminated border. Small folio. Half bound. Italy, about 1495. £40:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31648903_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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