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1. <x-tab> </x-tab>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.<br>
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)<x-tab> </x-tab>$300.00<br><br>
2. <x-tab> </x-tab>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)<x-tab> </x-tab>$700.00<br><br>
3. <x-tab> </x-tab>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)<x-tab> </x-tab>$1750.00<br><br>
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