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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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BODIES: THE 17TH-CENTURY EXHIBITION
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BILS, D.D. Ludovici de. Specimina Anatomica, cum clarriss. Doctissimorumque Virorum Epistolis aliquot & Testimoniis. . Rotterdam, Arnoldus Leers, 1661.
Extremely rare group of anatomical pamphlets in first Latin edition by Lodewijk de Bils, a nobleman from Flanders, who advertised a method of turning bodies into transparent teaching tools preserved and embalmed in a wax-like substance.
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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 CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD
WITH FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS
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HIGHMORE, Nathaniel. Corporis Humani Disquisitio Anatomica; in aqua Sanguinis Cicrulationem in quavis Corporis particular plurimis typis novis, ac Aenygmatum Medicorum succincta dilucidatione ornatam prosequutus est. The Hague, Samuel Broun, 1651.
An internally fresh copy of the first edition of a groundbreaking work in the history of hematology: the first anatomical textbook to accept Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood, which Harvey had first published in 1628, twenty-three years earlier.
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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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