Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DUCHESNE [or QUERCETANUS], JOSEPH. Tetras gravissimorum totius capitis affectuum. [24], 532, [18] pages, including colophon leaf and final blank. bound with his: Liber de priscorum philosophorum verae medicinae materia, praeparationis modo, atque in curandis morbis. [24], 432 pages. Together, 2 works in one volume. 8vo, 151x91 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, soiled; contents browned, front free endpaper loose, minor worming in inner corners at end. 17th-century signature of Johann Gottfried Geilfus on titles, his(?) underscoring and marginalia in the second work; Kings County Medical Society bookplate on front pastedown, their stamp on first title. Marburg: Paul Egenolph, 1617; Geneva: heirs of Eustace Vignon, 1603

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Third edition of a 1606 treatise on conditions affecting the head, including epilepsy, vertigo, and apoplexy, bound with the first edition of a treatise on Paracelsian iatrochemistry. Krivatsy 3474, 3439.