Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HEYLL, CHRISTOPH; et al. Hoc in volumine haec continentur, Artificialis medicatio [and other texts]. [8], 90, [2]; 882 [i. e., 288], [12] pages, including 2 integral blanks and last leaf with printer's device. 4to, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, rebacked, lacks catches and clasps. Mainz: Ivo Schöffer, 1534

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scarce first edition of a collection of writings on therapeutics and pharmacology comprising Heyll's Artificialis medicatio, a commentary on the Ars medica of Galen; the Methodi cognoscendorum morborum of Niccolò Bertruccio (d. 1347), a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of complaints; an excerpt from the commentary by Jean de Saint-Amand (d. before 1312) on the 12th-century antidotary of Nicolaus Salernitanus; and a combined index to the last-named work and to the pharmacopoeia attributed to the Baghdad court physician Joannes Mesuë the Younger (d. 1015). Durling 2305 (incomplete copy); Hoffmann II, 149; Sarton II, 239-40 and 1089-90, and III, 847. OCLC cites only the NLM, Brown, Oxford, and Cambridge copies.