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Two popular medical works in the vernacular by the famous town phisician of Dordrecht

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van.
Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.

Fine engraved frontispiece with view of Dordrecht at the bottom, woodcut vignette on title, emblematic engraving of Fortuna illustrating the preface, 7 half-page engravings of herbs and plants and anatomical details, including views of Marseille, Orange and Cairo, and 11 full-page anatomical engraved plates in the text, including plates illustrating the blood circulation and the muscular system, woodcut initials.

Fine engraved frontispiece with view of Dordrecht at the bottom, woodcut vignette on title, emblematic engraving of Fortuna illustrating the preface, 7 half-page engravings of herbs and plants and anatomical details, including views of Marseille, Orange and Cairo, and 11 full-page anatomical engraved plates in the text, including plates illustrating the blood circulation and the muscular system, woodcut initials.

Fine engraved frontispiece with view of Dordrecht at the bottom, woodcut vignette on title, emblematic engraving of Fortuna illustrating the preface, 7 half-page engravings of herbs and plants and anatomical details, including views of Marseille, Orange and Cairo, and 11 full-page anatomical engraved plates in the text, including plates illustrating the blood circulation and the muscular system, woodcut initials.

Fine engraved frontispiece with view of Dordrecht at the bottom, woodcut vignette on title, emblematic engraving of Fortuna illustrating the preface, 7 half-page engravings of herbs and plants and anatomical details, including views of Marseille, Orange and Cairo, and 11 full-page anatomical engraved plates in the text, including plates illustrating the blood circulation and the muscular system, woodcut initials.

Fine engraved frontispiece with view of Dordrecht at the bottom, woodcut vignette on title, emblematic engraving of Fortuna illustrating the preface, 7 half-page engravings of herbs and plants and anatomical details, including views of Marseille, Orange and Cairo, and 11 full-page anatomical engraved plates in the text, including plates illustrating the blood circulation and the muscular system, woodcut initials.



Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch voor Pieter Looymans ende Maerten de Bot, 1645. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, with old ms. title on spine, red painted edges. Fine engraved frontispiece with view of Dordrecht at the bottom, woodcut vignette on title, emblematic engraving of Fortuna illustrating the preface, 7 half-page engravings of herbs and plants and anatomical details, including views of Marseille, Orange and Cairo, and 11 full-page anatomical engraved plates in the text, including plates illustrating the blood circulation and the muscular system, woodcut initials. (44), 487, (7) pp.

With:
(2) IDEM. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.
Dordrecht, (Jaspar Gorris & Hendrick van Asch, 1644). 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title. 152 pp.

Ad 1:First edition of one of the famous medical works in the vernacular by Jan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647): a most practical manual on surgery, starting with a discourse on the history, value, and necessity of surgery: 'Lof de chirurgie; ofte gespreck over de weerdigheyt, oudtheyt, ende nootsakelickheyt van de Heelkunde', with a laudatory poem by Jacob Cats ((4), 28 pp.), followed by the first part on the properties and manner of preparation of a large number of healing plants and fruits: 'Het eerste boeck. Van de Heel-middelen' (pp. 29-171), and the second part discussing external diseases: 'Het tweede boeck. Van de uyt-wendige deelen, ende daer op, ende in komende vlacken, bleynen, puysten, wonden, sweren, ende zeeren' (pp. 173-487.
Ad 2: Dutch translation of the Medicinae Encomium (first edition: Dordrecht 1633), a praise of medicine, with a laudatory poem by Dr. Willem Nyssen, and together with a confutation of the complaint  against the necessity of medicine in Montaigne's Essays: 'Bergh-val, ofte wederlegginge van Michiel de Montagne, tegens de nootsakelickheyt der genees-konste', dedicated to his collegue Dr. Cornelis van Someren who contributed a laudatory poem.  The text is dated Dordrecht, 24 October 1641 (pp. 35-152). There are two early, almost identical editions of this Dutch translation: one published together with the 1642 edition of Van Beverwijck's Schat der ongesontheyd and one published with the 1644 edition of Van Beverwijck's Schat de gesontheyd; the edition in our copy is the latter.

Van Beverwijck was one of the few Dutch physicians enjoying international fame. He introcuced for instance the recent revolutionary ideas on blodd circulation of Harvey in Europe. Van Beverwijck had studied at Padova, at the time the most advanced university for medicine, and became town physician and Lector in Surgery at Dordrecht, his birth-town. His medical works, on instigation of the famous Dutch poet Jacob Cats - also born in Dordrecht - written in the vernacular, became very popular and many editions, especially of his Schat de gesontheyt, Schat der ongesontheyt, and the preaent Heel-konste, appeared till far into the 18th century.

Good copy with ownership's entry on endpaper: Ferdinandus Noordbeek (Ootmarsum, ca. 1725?), and ex-libris of dr. A.C. de Vet.- (Hinges sl. loosening).
L. van Gemert, 'Johan van Beverwijck als 'instituut'', in: De zeventiende eeuw, 8/1 (1992), pp. 99-106; ad 1: Krivatsy 1199; Bibl. Med. Neerl. p. 290; E.D. Baumann, Johan van Beverwijck 20 a; ad 2: Krivatsy 1202; Bibl. Med. Neerl. p. 1; Baumann 19a (bound with Schat der Ongesontheyt); Wellcome p. 159 and Bibliotheca Walleriana 1013 (both French ed. 1730).

Related Subjects: Medicine  Surgery 

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