[Rarebooks] Medicine

[Dennis Melhouse]

1.      Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. DE MEDICINA LIBRI OCTO. Amsterdam: Joannem 
Wolters, 1687. [xlix], 574p, [xxiv, errata] Engraved frontispiece and 
engraved portrait. 12mo. Bound in full period calf with embossed panel and 
corner ornements on the covers, no spine label as is typical of the period. 
Front hinge professionally repaired, else VG, tight and clean. De Medicina 
was one of a series of treatises intended to embrace all knowledge proper 
for a man on the world.
The whole body of medical literature belonging to the Hippocratic and 
Alexandrian times is ably summarized, and a knowledge of the state of 
medical science up to the times of the author (first century) is thus 
conveyed to us which can be obtained from no other source. Encyclopedia 
Britannica, 11th ed. Vol. XVIII, p.44. (6938) $300.00

2.      Hardie, James. AN ACCOUNT OF THE YELLOW FEVER, WHICH OCCURRED IN 
THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, IN THE YEAR 1822... New York: Samuel Marks, 1822. 
First edition. Small octavo. iv, 120p.  Newly rebound with leather spine 
and speckled paper boards, the original paper cover panel mount on upper 
cover. Library stamps on title page and preface, general browning to paper 
and light foxing, some pages with early repairs, including small loss of 
text on page 115.  All quite sound. Sabin 30316; Cordasco 20-067 (14098) 
$700.00

3.      Uffenbach, Peter (1566-1635).  THESAURUS CHIRURGIAE, CONTINENS 
PRAESTANTISSIMORUM AUTORUM, UTOTE AMBROSII PAREI PARISIENSIS... Frankfort: 
Typis Nicolai Hoffmanni; Impensa Jacobi Fischeri, 1610. [12], 1164p, [31]. 
Profusely illustrated with woodcuts after Gessner and others depicting 
laboratory equipment, anatomical figures, surgical instruments, etc. Folio. 
Rebound in tan leather with gilt titles and panel designs on the covers. 
Pages age-toned, and with some worming. Complete and quite sound.  Krivatsy 
12040. (9742)      $1750.00

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