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The first work of Joh. van Beverwijck bound together with a work on the waters of Spa

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van.
Idea medicinae veterum.

Title printed in red and black with printer's device, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials.

Title printed in red and black with printer's device, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials.



Leiden, Officina Elzeviriorum, 1637. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Title printed in red and black with printer's device, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials. (8), 390. (10) pp.

With:
(2) HEER(S), Henrick de. Spadacrene ultimis curis polita: hoc est Fons Spadanus accuratissimè descriptus, acidas bibendi modus Medicamina oxypotis necessaria.
Liège, Johannes Ouwerx, 1635. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (24), 128 pp.

Ad 1: Rare first and only edition of van Beverwijck's first publication, giving a series of quotations from non-medical (Greek) authors. Johan van Beverwijk (1594-1647) studied medicine in Leyden and several other European citites. He earned his doctor's degree in medicine at the university of Padua. In 1618 he went back to his home town Dordrecht where he became town physician and lector in medicine. He wrote a.o. Schat der gesondheyt (1636), Schat der ongesondheyt, ofte geneeskonste van de sieckten (1642) en Heel-konste (1645). His works functioned as medical encyclopedias and were dispersed over a large audience. By his published works he became just as famous as his kinsman, Andreas Vesalius.
Ad 2: Rare work in the very rare third edition, on the therapeutic and medicinal use of the waters of Spa, written by Henrick de Heer(s); 1570-1636). The work which first had appeared in Liege at A. de Coswarem in 1614, who also printed the second edition of 1622, led to a violent controversy with Joh. Bart. van Helmont who attacked De Heer's work in his own work on the same subject (1624; see: Thorndike VII, p. 229). De Heers belonged to a patrician family of Tongres in the state of Liège, where he was born. He was distinguished by his knowledge of philosophy and the mathematics. He travelled in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and England. After he had graduated as medical doctor he settled in Liège as town physician from 1605. He also was the physician of Ernest Ferdinand, Elector of Cologne. Every year De Heer spent some weeks at Spa, on which he wrote the present book. At least 7 editions followed till 1689 and a French translation appeared in 1646 (reprinted in 1654 and 1739).

Good copies.
Ad 1: Willems 453; BMN p. 1; Wellcome I, 836; Krivatsy 1201; ad 2: De Theux cols. 58 & 122; Ferguson I, p. 372.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Elzevier  Leyden  Medicine 

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