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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    0' First 104 V 105 106 107 108 109 110 Day 16 SIZES MIXED Roques (Jos.) Phytographie Medicale, oil Ton expose l’Histoire des Poissons tires du Rfegne Vegetal ; avec des Observations sur les Propridtes et les Usages des Plantes H4roiques (sic), 180 finely coloured plates of poisonous plants, etc. 2 vol. uncut 4to. Paris, chez l’Auteur impr. de Didot le Jeune, 1821 Selenus (Gustavus) Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae lib. IX, engraved title (mounted) and numerous plates of crypto- graphs, etc. (2 ll. in MS. some margins mended), half vellum, Lundeburgi, 1624—Fuchsius (L.) Operum tomus Primus, woodcut head of Author on title, Francof a. M. 1566 (sold not subject to return) sm. folio. (2) Sharrock (Rob.) Tbe History of the Propagation and Improve- ment of Vegetables by the Concurrence of Art and Nature, FIRST EDITION, plate, calf gilt (by C. Lewis) 8vo. Oxford, A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1660 Spachius (Israel) Gynaeciorum, sive de Mulierum turn Com- munibus, turn Gravidarum, Parientium, et Puerparum Affectibus & Morbis, Libri Graecorum, Arabum, Latinorum, Partim nunc primum editi, partim denuo recognovit, etc. numerous woodcuts, vellum fol. Argentinae, L. Zetner, 1597 Theodorus (Jacobus Tabernaemontanus) Neuw Kreuterbuch, mit schonen Kiinstlichen und leblichen figuren und Conterfeyten aller gewachsz der Kreuter, Wurtzeln, Blumen, Fruclit, Get- reyd, Gewiirtz der Biiume, etc. so in teutschen und welschen Landen, auch im Berg Synai, in Hispanien, Ost unnd West Indien oder in der neuwen Welt wachsen, etc. lit. golf). title in red and black within ivoodcut border (margins cut close), and about 3000 figures of plants in the text, contemporary German binding of oak boards and stamped pigskin, leather clasp>s thick folio. Francfort a. M. Nic. Bassaeus, 1588-91 Theophrastus: De Historia Plantarum lib. X, Gr. et Lat. cum Commentariis, etc. edidit Jo. Bodaeus a Stapel, engraved title and numerous woodcuts of plants, old. calf (cover broken) thick folio. Amst. //. Laurentius, 1644 Theophrastus: De Historia et Causis Plantarum libri XV, Theodoro Gaza interprete, engraved titles and figured wood- cut initials, 2 vol. in 1, vellum, Paris. C. Wechel. 1529— Dioscorides : De Medicinali Materia, Jo. Ruellio interprete, numerous woodcuts of herbs, etc. limp vellum, Lugd. B. Arnolettus, 1540—Hermann (P.) Horti Academici Lugd. Bat. Catalogus, copperplate engravings (damp stained), vellum, Lugd. Bat. 1687 8vo. (3) Thurneysser zum Tuhrn (Leonhardt) Historia und Beschrei- bung Influentischer Elementischer nnd Natiirlicher Wirck- ungen aller fremden und heimiscben Erdgewechssen, etc. lit. gotf). fine woodcut title (mended and slightly defective), and numerous woodcuts of plants as connected with Astro- nomy (a few ll. stained), half vellum, a rare and singular Astrological Plant Book folio. Berlin, Mich. Hentzsken, 1578