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The Most Important Medical Woodcut 1500
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[BOTANY/MATERIA MEDICA] Anonymous. Ortus Sanitatis. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus et Reptilibus. De Avibus et Volatilibus. De Piscibus et Natatilibus. Strasbourg, Reinhard Beck, 1517.
An unusually fresh example of this early augmented Strasbourg edition of “the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500” (Hunt) giving descriptions of medicinal plants and medicinal stones, instructions on animal husbandry, and a treatise on urine.
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“Which Is the Best Wine”- BOCK
First Edition of Bock on Gastronomy and Alchemy
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BOCK, Hieronymus. Teutsche Speiszkammer: inn welcher du findest was gesunden vnnd kranken Menschen zur Leibs narung vnd desselben gepresten von nöten. . Strassburg, Wendel Rihel, 1550.
Very rare first edition of the botanist Hieronymus Bock’s gastronomic treatise, Teutsche Speizkammer, or German Larder, a theme the author asserts has never before been treated in German.
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The Hippocratic Oath
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HIPPOCRATES/BRENTIUS, Andrea, tr.. De natura hominis. Add: De victu; De tuenda valetudine; Medicinae lex; Iusiurandum; Demonstratio quod artes sunt; Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Rome, Eucharius Silber, 1483-90.
Rare incunable edition of this collection of Hippocratic texts, some in their first printings, and including one of the first appearances in print of the Hippocratic oath.
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The Theory of Monsters
With 57 Plates
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LICETI, Fortunio. De Monstruorum natura causis et differentiis, libri duo. Padua, Paulo Frambotti, 1634.
First illustrated and best edition of this treatise on teratology, “one of the earliest classifications of deformities” (Garrison-Morton) and a staple of pathological anatomy into the nineteenth century.
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Mendeleev's Master's Thesis
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MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich. Polozhenija, izbrannyja dija zashchischenija na stepen magistra khimii . St. Petersburg, n.p., 1856.
First edition of Mendeleev's master's thesis on the structure of silicon compounds, defended by the 22-year old at the University of St. Petersburg in October 1856.
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