Volume 1

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.

    19/98 (page 17)
    Lot 122—continued. anatomical plates of the vocal and auricular organs, contem- porary Italian calf the sides of blind stamped oi'namental and figured panels, well preserved large folio. Ferrariae, V. Baldinus, 1600 *** The title and the two portraits in this work are remarkable specimens of copper-plate engraving, and all the plates are of superior workmanship. 123 Castellus (Petrus Romanus) Hyaena Odorifera, copper-plate title and engravings, limp vellum sm. Mo. Messanae, Vidua Jo. Fr. Bianco, 1638 124 Castle (George, M.D.) The Chemical Galenist, a Treatise wherein the Practise of the Ancients is reconcil’d to the New Dis- coveries in the Theory of Physick, half calf, Sarah Griffin for H. Ttvyford, 1667—Thomson (George, il/.D.) The Direct Method of Curing Chemically ; with the Art of Midwifery Chymically asserted, portrait by W. She?'ivm, 1675—Simpson (Wm. 31.D. of Wakefield, co. York) Hydrological Essayes, or a Vindication of Hydrologia Chemica; being a further Discovery of the Scarbrough Spaw, etc. old calf, J. D. for B. Chiswel, 1670 8w. (3) 125 Caxton. The Governayle of Helthe; with Medecyne of ye Stomache, reprinted from Caxton’s Edition {ca. 1491) with Remarks and Notes by Wm. Blades, only 55 copies printed, morocco, r. e. sm. ito. Blades, 1858 126 Celsus. De Medicina lib. VIII, editio princeps, lit. rom. long lines, 34 to a full page, with signs. \Hain *4835, Proc- tor 6116], first leaf of Table and first leaf of text mended; otherwise good, half bound sm. folio. Florentiae a Nicolao {Laurentio) impressus Anno Salutis M/cccCL/xxv/iii [1478] *** This Editio Princeps is of VERY rare occurrence. At the end is an inscription stating that a certain “3Ia?'cellus Philoxenus Cornelianae” read the book in the house of “ Joaiines Aloy- sius Chanchi” in 1490. 127 Celsus. De Re Medica libri octo ad exemplarium veterum & re- centium fidem excusi; acces. Scribonii Largi Compositionum Medicamentorum liber nunc primum ereptus industria Jo. Ruellei, etc. title within woodcut border, with Cleopatra beneath, with signature of Charles Bernard, Principal Physician to Francis I, Paris. C. Wechel, 1529—Galeni Liber de Plenitudine, etc. ib. 1528—Abumeron. Avenzohar. Rectificatio Medicationis, et Regiminis, lit. golf), double columns, 44 ll. with signs. \IIain *2186], rubricated, red painted capitals {some headlines cut into) [ Venet. Gregoi'ii Fratres, 1490] — Nic. Leoniceni Opuscula per D. Andr. Leeniura Medicum repurgata, etc. Basil. Andr. Cratander, 1532 ; in 1 vol. old calf sm. folio C