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Item #4697 A Treatise of Melancholy. Containing the causes thereof, and reasons of the strange...

A Treatise of Melancholy. Containing the causes thereof, and reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the physicke cure, and spirituall consolation for such as haue thereto adioyned afflicted conscience. The difference betwixt it, and Melancholy, with divers philosophicall discourses touching actions, and affections of Soule, Spirit, and Body: the particulars whereof are to be seene before the booke. By T. Bright Doctor of Phisicke. Newly Corrected and amended.

London: Printed by William Stansby, 1613.

Price: $18,500.00

Bound in 17th c. blind-ruled calf, rebacked in the 20th c., hinges and extremities rubbed. A nice copy with intriguing manuscript waste fragments. Contents fine with light damp-stains to the opening and closing leaves and few other places in the text, ink stains to head of leaves B3-4, small piece...

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Item #3000 Examen de ingenios. The examination of mens vvits. In whicch [sic], by discouering the...

Examen de ingenios. The examination of mens vvits. In whicch [sic], by discouering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. By John Huarte. Translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camilli. Englished out of his Italian, by R.C. Esquire

London: Printed by Adam Islip, for C. Hunt of Excester, 1594.

Price: $14,000.00

Bound in 19th c. calf, rebacked, the boards ruled in gold. This is a fine copy; title a little dusty. Occasional marginal pencil notations in margins.“To Distinguish and discern these natural difference’s of man’s wit, and to apply to each by art that science wherein he may profit, is the...

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Item #4705 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master...

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London.

London: A. Islip, Joice Norton, and R. Whitaker, 1633.

Price: $12,500.00

A nice copy, with the engraved title page by John Payne in fine condition. Bound in early paneled calfskin, nicely rebacked and with minor restoration to the leather, the spine with attractive gilt ornaments and the author, title, and date tooled in gold. The text is in very good shape...

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Item #4320 De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus. Ulrich von Hutten

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

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Item #3724 De Monstrorum Natura, Caussis, et differentiis Libri duo. Aeneis iconibus ornate et...

De Monstrorum Natura, Caussis, et differentiis Libri duo. Aeneis iconibus ornate et aucti.

Padua: Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1634.

Price: $10,000.00

A fine copy in early 19th c. quarter calf and speckled boards, spine ruled in golf, with minor wear. The text is crisp, with only two small blemishes and a few very tiny (barely noticeable) pinprick wormholes. The impressions of the plates are rich and sharp. The engraving on leaf...

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Item #4171 Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra...

Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam nova & rariora ex recentiorum scriptis addidit. Editio Novissima. Iconibus illustrata.

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.

Price: $9,500.00

The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...

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Item #4513 Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des...

Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des Herzens und denen Spannadern des Angesichts aus den Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

Berlin: Bey Ambros. Haude und Johann Carl Spener, 1755.

Price: $4,900.00

With 3 folding plates engraved by Nikolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Plate 1 illustrates the veins on the right side of the face, head, and neck, accompanied by over 310 annotations (inscribed: '[...] sculp. Mem: de l'Acad Tom vii'); Plates 2 and 3 show both sides...

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Item #4642 Margarita medicin(a)e. ein meisterlichs usserlesens Biechlin der Artzeny für...

Margarita medicin(a)e. ein meisterlichs usserlesens Biechlin der Artzeny für mancherley kranckheit vnd siechtagen der menschen. Gemacht durch Johannem Tollat von Vochenberg in der weitberümpte Universitet zu Wien bey dem aller erfarnisten man d(er) Artzeny doctor Schrick.

Strasbourg: [Matthias Hupfuff], 1508.

Price: $14,000.00

Printer information from Schmidt (see references.) A very good copy in modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled, a few contemporary corrections to page numbering, tiny chip to blank corner of title, occ. light marginal staining. With a woodcut title illustration (repeated on the final leaf) showing a doctor treating his bed-ridden...

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