Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    OUR GREgHLY REDUCED PRICES ARE IN U. S. A. DOLLARS oe pei ile AND ABSOLUTELY NET. F. fe 15. BERNARD LE TREVISAN. De chymico miraculo. 3 leaves, 198 pp. 8vo. Half vellum. Basel, 1583. $ 16.00 Caillet quotes only later sdidinns. a: Bernard of Trevisa’s writings were once in great request by alchemists, and are still interesting for the account they give of the early alchemists, and of their great pains and expenses to arrive at an unsuccesfull result ’’, — Rare. ay 16. BERNOUILLI, J. De motu musculorum, de effervescentia et fer- i B - mentatione dissertationes physico-mechanicae. 12 leaves, 123 pp. With folding | tf plate. 4to. Venice, 1721. — MICHELOTTI, P. A. De separatione fluidorum in corpore animali. Allegoric frontisp., 4 leaves, 362 pp., 1 leaf. With folding y. plate. 4to. Venice, 1721. Two different works. Calf. $ 11. 50 Ke Fulton, Muscular Contraction, p. 28. — Bernouilli’s chief work. 17. BOCK (Tragus), H. De stirpium usitatis nomenclaturis, propriisque ‘ differentiis, commentariorum libri tres. Acc. praefationes duae; altera Conradi . Gesneri rei herbariae scriptorum catalogum complectens. Two vols. ‘7 34 leaves, 1200 pp., 32 leaves. With the author’s splendid fullpage portrait p3 (twice in the two vols. of our copy, inserted before the title) and about 520 ie beautiful woodcuts of plants, all entirely free of colour, partly by David i, Kandel. 4to. Nice 18th century half calf. Strassburg, 1552. & 110.00 he. Pritzel 867. Schreiber, Kriuterbicher, 45. — First Latin edition of this splendid herbal. With the interesting ‘* Index autorum rei herbariae ’’ by Konrad Gesner and index of plants in six languages. — Some leaves with short upper margins, but an unusually fine and exceptionally fresh copy. 18. BOERHAAVE, H. Tractatus de viribus medicamentorum. — y ABERCROMBY, D. Nova medicinae tum speculativae, tum practicae clavis. sf 70 pp., 564 pp., 43 pp., 2 leaves. 8vo. Original calf. Paris, 1740. $ 4.50 ae 4 19. BOERHAAVE, H. De morbis oculorum. 4 leaves, 366 pp., 5 leaves. _ aa With four plates. 8vo. Original calf. Paris, 1748. i $5. 50 a 20. BOKELIUS, J. Anatome vel descriptio partium humani corporis. 4 8 leaves, 233 pp., 8 leaves. 8vo. Modern half vellum. Helmstadt, 1588. $ 32. 00 ry Feyfer, D. nr. 9. — A rare work by this German physician, based on Vesalius. We mention : De ossibus, de musculis, de auditus organo, de chylo, de organis generationis, de formatione foetus, motu et situ, de partu, de pulmone, de corde, etc. — Very fine copy with a few unopened leaves. — 21. BOOT, Boetius de. Gemmarum et lapidum historia. Auxit A. Toll. Es 4 leaves, 576 pp., 12 leaves. With numerous, interesting woodcuts and two fol- ding tables. 8vo. Original vellum. Leyden, 1636. $ 10. 00 a First Latin edition. Contains a chapter on American gems (p. 33 sq.). Also of great medical ; interest as describing the medical virtues of gems and minerals. — Fine copy. ‘ 22. CASSERIUS, Giulio. De vocis auditusque organis historia ana- tomica. Two parts in one vol. 30 leaves, 191 pp., 126 pp., 1 leaf. With magnificent historiated frontispiece showing skeletons, ornaments, etc., x @ the two excellent portraits of the Duke Ranutius Farnese and the author de (which are usually missing), and 33 splendid copper-plates (twenty-two dealing al with vocal organs, eleven with the ear). Se folio. Vellum. Ferrara, rer -1600. . 105. 00 Choulant-Frank p. 223-4, — A wonderful union 2 of scientific accuracy with artistic perfection was attained in the anatomical works of Giulio Casserio, Harvey’s teacher at Padua. — Com- a plete copies, as ours, with the portraits and all plates are of particular rarity. <A standard : work in the history of anatomy. Riss ‘ 23. CELSUS. De arte medica libri octo. Ed. by G. Pantinus. 6 leaves, ae ~ 564 pp., 18 leaves. Lolio. Original vellum. Basel, J. Oporinus, 1552. $ 14. 50 gaia - Choulant, Handbuch p. 169. — ‘ Celsus was the first important writer on medical history ”’