Volume 2

Catalogue of the valuable and extensive collection of early medical works (including anatomy and surgery) : also a large and important collection of books & tracts on pestilence from the earliest times to the eighteenth century : the property of John [i.e. Joseph] Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P. (deceased) ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... Wednesday, 12th of July, 1911, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely.

  • Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Catalogue of the valuable and extensive collection of early medical works (including anatomy and surgery) : also a large and important collection of books & tracts on pestilence from the earliest times to the eighteenth century : the property of John [i.e. Joseph] Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P. (deceased) ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... Wednesday, 12th of July, 1911, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    72 Lobel (Matthias de) Kruydtboeck, oft Beschryvinghe van allerleye Ghewassen, Krnyderen, Hesteren ende Gheboomten, lit. gotf). engraved title, inlaid and illuminated, numerous woodcuts of plants, etc. with contemporary colouring, engraving of The Temptation of Adam and Eve, by II. Goltzius, dated 1585, inlaid and coloured, on reverse of colophon, some water-colour drawings inserted, old calf folio. I Antwerpen, by Chr. Plantyn, 1581 *** The only edition of Lobel’s work in Dutch. Vb Lonicerus (Adam.) Naturalis Historiae Opus Novum ; De Natura et Viribus Arborum, Fruticum, Herbarum, Animantiumq, terrestrium, volatilium & aquatilium, etc. numerous woodcuts {title stained and slightly mended ; some other ll. slightly stained), new half vellum folio. Francof. Chr. Egenolff. 1551 74 Lovell (Robert) Pambotanologia, sive Enchiridion Botanicum, or a Compleat Herball, the second edition, with Additions {a catalogue of books published by Rich. Davis, of Oxford, at the end), half calf sm. 8vo. Oxford, W. II. for Ric. Davis, 1665 75 Macer. De Viribus Herbarum, Manuscript on vellum, XV Century (43 ll. by 4 in.) by a German or Dutch scribe, written in neat gotfjir Irttrr, long lines (30 to a full page), capitals rubricated, contemporary Netherlands binding of oak boards and leather, stamped in compartments of figures of Christ, the Evangelists, wiverns, heads of philosophers, etc. with legends “ Ecce Virgo Concipiet,” “ Apparavit Benige,” etc. with metal and leather clasps (mended, and some details worn, otherwise a well-preserved and interesting binding) 8VO. SyEC. xv 76 f-juj- <UL, Macer Floridus de Viribus Herbarz famosissimus medicus et medicorz. Speculum (in Virgilian Stanzas), lit. gotf). (lettres bdtardes), long lines (33 to a full page), with signs, a-g 4 in eights, outline woodcuts of plants, large cut of the author in his study on title repeated on reverse, new vellum gilt sm. 4to. absque nota *** An extremely rare edition, which is apparently not in Hain, as it differs from those mentioned by him. The bastard gothic type used indicates late 15th Century printing. It ends with the lines: “ Finis. / Herbaru Vanas qui vis Cognosere Vites / Macer adest disce ; quo duce doctus eris.” 77 UjlD ) - ■3 di • Mathiolus (P. A.) Commentary in sex libros Pedacii Dioscorides de Medica Materia ; adjectis quam plurimis Plantarum & Animalium imaginibus eodem authore, nume- rous woodcuts of plants and figured initials, all carefully coloured by hand, contemporary Venetian red morocco, the sides covered with elegant gilt scroll ornaments IN the Grolier manner, slightly mended, but in fairly good con- dition sm. folio. Venetiis, apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1554 0