Kitāb al-Manṣūrī, Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, R128 .F47 1560
Joannis Matthaei Gradii ... (Rhazes). Ferrari da Gradi, Gianmatteo, commentator. Practica seu commentaria in nonum Rasis ad Almansorem. Venice,... Show moreJoannis Matthaei Gradii ... (Rhazes). Ferrari da Gradi, Gianmatteo, commentator. Practica seu commentaria in nonum Rasis ad Almansorem. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1560. Folio, 1 l(b) + 1t + 1 + 4 + 84(ind.) + 835 + 1 + 1 l(b), with woodcut printer's device on title and at colophon, printed in double columns, numerous small woodcut initials; contemporary vellum. The sixth and last edition (first, Milan or Pavia, 1472) of the monumental commentary on the ninth book of Rhazes' Liber ad Almansorem by the mid-fifteenth-century professor of medicine at the University of Pavia, edited by Gian Matteo Durastante. A voluminous index appears for the first time in this edition, and a short tract on fevers by Antonius Gradius (with whom Ferrari de Gradi is not to be confused) is appended.Adams R226; Durling 1504 (imperfect); besides the copy in the National Library of Medicine (Durling), NUC records only one other location, Cornell; not in Wellcome, Bird or Parkinson & Lumb: see Garrison-Morton 2192 for the first edition. Main Heritage Shelves General R128 .F47 1560 Book Item-ID: i10164819 BIB-ID: 1018117 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, R128 .C43 1515
Title in red and black with attractive woodcut depicting the beheading of Saint Symphorian, with Champier and his wife nkeeling before the martyr... Show moreTitle in red and black with attractive woodcut depicting the beheading of Saint Symphorian, with Champier and his wife nkeeling before the martyr in prayer; final four leaves of index (and blank) bound at the beginning; with all the blanks; a fine copy, in contemporary blind tooled calf, bookplate of J. Renard on front paste-down. First edition of one of the rarest of Champier's early medical works, published between 1509 and 1515 in Lyons and unknown to Allut (Etude Biographique & Bibliographique sur Symphorien Champier, Lyons, 1859). Champier, physician, surgeon, humanist and chronicler, wrote many and various books, amongst them the first important history of medicine, De medicinae claris scriptoribus in quinque partibus tractatus (Lyons, 1506). Adams C1328; Bird 538; BMSTC French Books p. 99; Durling 937; IA 135.496; besides the copy in the National Library of Medicine (Durling), NUC records only four other locations, Yale Medical School, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, New York Academy of Medicine and Countway Library; not in Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise. Title and place of publication from colophon Title page printed in red and black; title vignette (woodcut). Initials; marginal notes. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General R128 .C43 1515 Book Item-ID: i10164807 BIB-ID: 1018115 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1700, RS79 .B37 1496
Text in two columns. Woodcut in initial letters Registrum at colophon Main Heritage Vault RS79 .B37 1496 Book Item-ID: i22819460 BIB-ID: 2427927 Show moreText in two columns. Woodcut in initial letters Registrum at colophon Main Heritage Vault RS79 .B37 1496 Book Item-ID: i22819460 BIB-ID: 2427927 Show less
