Sales catalogue 93: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 93: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Y ee ; DAVIS & ORIOLI, 37 MUSEUM STREET, LONDON, W.C.1. 49 A large part of the commentary on the 118th psalm has been misplaced. The misplacement mentioned in the B.M. Cat. is also found in our copy. Except for a few small wormholes at the beginning and the end our copy ts tn magnificent state, with very large margins. The Dunn copy. According to Proctor the date of our edition 1s 1471. The type used by Schiissler 1s of a semt-Gothic character, resembling the early type of Sweynheym and Pannartz, and is certainly one of the most beautiful employed by the early German printers. Hain- Copinger 15693. Proctor 1592. BM. Cat. I.B., 5362. PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE 15TH CENTURY. 200 VALESCUS DE TARENTA. Tractatus de Epidemia et Peste. s.l.n.d. _ {[Basle, Martin Flach, ca. 1474] £30 Small folio. Paper wrappers. 14 leaves. 32 long lines. Gothic characters. One of the earliest printed works on the plague. The author was a Portuguese who 1s known to have lived at Montpellier about 1390. He became later Physician to Charles VI. He left two works, the Philonium and the present book, both of which were widely read at the time. Some dampstains, but an excellent tall copy. Excessively rare. Only two copiesin America. Hatin 15244. Proctor 7552. Osler, Incun. Medica 52. Klebs-Droz 120. B.M.C. I V., 741. THE First ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF VASARI. 201 VASARI (Giorgio) Le Vite de piu excellenti pittori, scultori ed architetti, di nuova ampliate con i ritratti loro et con l’aggiunta delle vite de’ vivi e de’ morti dall’ anno 1550 insino al 1567. Florence, Giunta, 1568 £8/8/- 4to. Half calf. 2 parts in three vols. Woodcut borders to title-pages, woodcut portraits of the artists and printer’s devices. The First Complete Edition of Vasart’s Lives of the Painters, a book of capital importance in the history of art. The First Edition, covering the period to 1550 only, and in other ways incomplete, was published in 1550 by Torrentino. The present edition, complete and with the portraits, 1s greatly to be preferred. Top and bottom of title-pages rather closely cut as always, and a wormhole through blank corners of some ten pages in third volume, but a clean and otherwise excellent copy. t FIFTEENTH CENTURY POPULAR MEDICINE. 202 VERSEHUNG VON LEIB, Seel, Ehr und Gut. Augsburg, Johann _ Sch6nsperger, 1493 £37/10/- 4to. Bound in boards, covered with piece of a vellum manuscript, backed with old stamped calf. 159 leaves, the last blank missing. Gothic characters. With a full-page woodcut on verso of title representing a death-bed scene. Woodcut initial letter at the beginning. One of the most important popular medical books of the 15th century. At the beginning advice is given on how to nurse the sick and to look after them, how to make a will (an example of such a document 1s given). The anonymous author then says that it 1s necessary to seek the advice of a physician in illness, but im case that a physician should not be available he gives an extensive and detailed popular instruction on medical matters, which fills the largest part of the book. Sch popular medical books are, of course, extremely rare. A minute hole burned in blank margin of first leaf, and avery slight stain on a few leaves, but a fine copy. ps Hain 16021. B.M.C. IJ., 368. Sudhoff, Medizinische Incunabeln 232. 1
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