Oct 18, 2005 - Sale 2052

Sale 2052 - Lot 65

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CAMERARIUS, RUDOLF JAKOB.) Valentini, Michael Bernhard. Pandectae medico-legales. 6 (of 7) engraved plates; Volume 2 lacks portrait frontispiece. [28], 824, [24]; [8], 660, [4]; [8], 110, [2]; [8], 293, [1] pages. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary sheep gilt, some minor wear; contents severely browned. Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner, 1701

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Massive collection of forensic medical case histories followed by 2 appendices on miscellaneous topics and exotic materia medica such as St. Ignatius's bean, ipecac, cinchona, and porcupine stone. Pages 225-71 of the second appendix reprint the text of Camerarius's 1694 De sexu plantarum epistola, which gave the first experimental proof of plant sexuality. Arents 451 (for illustrated account of tobacco-smoke clysters in second appendix); DSB XV, 67; Norman 393; not in Alden.