Sales catalogue 12: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 12: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recent German catalogue of medical books Swiss Francs 3.125.—! Cor- ners of bottom-right-hand-margins of first four leaves mended, some slight traces of use and insignificant waterstains; some marginal annotations by an early hand, but well preserved copy. 15. ARETAEUS CAPPADOX. Aetiologia, simeiotica. et therapeutica. Cum commentario, quo obscura doctrina de nominibus morborum singulorum illustratur. Autore G. Henischio. Greek and Latin text, printed in two cols. Printer’s device. Folio. Original vellum binding, with gilt arms in the centre. Augsburg, D. Francus, 1603. Frs. 50.— First Greek-Latin edition, translated by Paulus Grassus. Only the faulty Greek text edition of 1554, Wigan’s valued Clarendon Press edi- tion (Oxford, 1723), the Leizpig text of C. G. Kuhne and the Greek text with English translation by Francis Adams (London, 1858) are known. Aretaeus is the most important source for the teachings of the Pneumatic school. As a clinician he ranks next to Hippocrates in the graphic accuracy and fidelity of his pictures of disease, of which he has given the classic accounts of pneumonia, diabetes, tetanus, elephantiasis, and a very full account of the different kinds of insanity. Aretaeus is easily the most attractive medical author of his time. (Garrison). — An excellent copy of this scarce edition. 16. ARGENTERIO, Giovanni. Varia opera de re medica. 19 pp., 356 pp., 25 pp. Printer’s device. Folio. Wrappers. Flo- rence, Torrentinus, 1550. _ Frs. 30.— Beautifully printed by Torrentinus’ press. ‘‘ Giovanni Argenterio of Castel-Nuovo (1513-72) appears to have been the first to revolt openly against the teachings of Galen. None of the theories of the physician of Pergamus were safe from his attacks. He objected to the confusion between disease and the near cause. He maintained that diseases were not derived from the elementary qualities, but represented a disharmony in the body, an ametria resulting from the complication of the parts of the body. The Galenists and humoralists attacked him, but he was sup-. ported by Joubert, Rondelet, Capivacci, and many others ”’ (Cumston). — Insignific. hole on one leaf affecting two or three letters, some water- stains, numerous marginal annotations in an old handwriting. 17. ARISTOTELES. Auctoritates seu propositiones univer- Sales Aristotelis et philosophorum. Black letter. 37 lines. 68 leaves, the first blank. With printer’s device at the end. 4to. Old limp vellum. Bologna, Ugo Rugerius, 1488. Frs. 675.— Hain-Copinger 1930. Proctor Suppl. I, 6567a. Pellechet 1268. Only one copy in French Public Libraries. Gesamtkatalog 2834. Voull. Berl. 2721,5. Second dated edition. ; Very rare and of great medicai interest. This compilation of selections from Aristoteles ete. and from com- mentaries is to a great extent devoted to natural sciences and medicine. Some of the contents: De coelo et mundo, metaphysica. Libri physico- rum, De generatione et corruptione. De meteoris. De sensu et sensato. De memoria et reminiscentia. De sonno et vigilia. De respiratione et aspi- ratione. De motu cordis. De animalibus ete. etc. The excerpts from Ari- Prices in Swiss Francs