Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN. Ortus medicinae. [52], 700 pages, including half-title. Folio, 322x221 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, worn, spine wormed; contents generally clean. Bookplate of Samuel X. Radbill. Venice: apud Juntas, & Joan. Jacobum Hertz, 1651

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Collected writings of one of the founders of biochemistry, who discovered and coined the term for gas. Garrison-Morton 665; Heirs of Hippocrates 409; Norman 1048 (all citing the 1648 original edition); Partington II, 209-40; Thorndike VII, 218-40.