Early Printing & Manuscripts (15th & 16th Century) / Medicine & Pharmacy

[ACHILLINI, Alessandro]. Secreta secretorum Aristotelis.
Including:
- ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophi ... de signis aquarum: & tempestatum.
- IDEM. Maximi philosophurum ... de mineralibus.
- ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. De intellectu.
- AVERROES. De beatitudine anime.
- ACHILLINI, Alexander. De universalibus.
- ALEXANDER THE GREAT [pseudo]. De mirabilibus Indie.
(Colophon:) Lyon, Antoine Blanchard [printer's device of Louis Martin on last page, with initials L.M.], 23 March 1528. Small 8vo. With a title page with a 4-piece decorated woodcut border with flowers, birds and snails (with initials EB?), woodcut printer's device on last page, 6 woodcut initials (3 series) and a leaf ornament. Set in 3 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with the title in roman capitals. Contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin(?) parchment over wooden boards, sewn on 2 double cords, in a panel design with quadruple fillets and 2 decorative rolls (one with winged heads and tassles, the other with quatrefoils in lozenges), brass catch-plates and anchor-plates (straps and clasps lost). LXXXIII ll. Full description

AEGINETA, Paulus. Salubria de tuenda valitudine praecepta. Guilielmo Copo Basileiensi interprete ...
Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Encomium artis medicae.
Nuremberg, (colophon:) Johann Petrejus, February 1525. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Later vellum with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold. [80] ll. Full description

ABULCASIS (Abu al-Quasim Khalaf Ibn Al-Abbas). Chirurgicorum omniu[m] primarii, lib. tres.
I. De cauterio cum igne & medicinis acutis per
singula corporis humani membra ...
II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis ...
III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis me[m]brorum ...
Preceded by: [THEODORUS PRISCIANUS] (mis-attributed to "Octavius HORATIANUS"). Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor ... Per Herma[n]num Comitem a Neüenar, nuper restitutus autor.
Strasbourg, Johannes Schott, 1532 (colophon: 26 February). 2 works in 1 edition. Folio in 6s (32.5 x 21 cm). With a 5-piece woodcut frame on the title page (each side piece with 2 roundels containing a portrait and coat of arms), 8 full-page woodcuts by Hans Wechtlin (ca. 1480-post 1526) and numerous woodcuts in the text. Set in Venetian-style roman types, with 14 mm typographic Roman capitals (probably by Peter Schoeffer the younger) used as initials. Later half sheepskin, with the title in ink on the foot edge. [8], 319, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ARDUINO, Sante. [Incipit:] Incipit liber de venenis ...
(Colophon: Venice, Bernardino Rizzo, 1492). Folio (42 x 28 cm). Set in in 2 columns in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with spaces left for numerous 3-line and 4-line and a few larger initials (with printed guide letters), none filled in. Modern black- and gold-tooled calf. [4], 101, [1] ll. Full description

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium catapotiorum, vel pilularum, quarum apud pharmacopolas usus est.
Lyon, Jean Pullon, 1545. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum. 188, [4] pp. Full description

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium electuariorum, pulverum, et confectionum.
Venice, Vincent Valgrisi, 1548. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and a larger version on the last page. Later stiff paper wrappers. 140, [2] pp. Full description

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium trochiscorum, unguentorum, ceratorum, emplastrorum, cataplasmatum, & collyriorum : quorum apud Ferrarienses pharmacopolas usus est : ...
Venice, (colophon: Lucas Antonius Juntas), 1551. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, restored. 296 ll. Full description

BRUNFELS, Otto. Epitome ex gravissimis authoribus, totius rei medicae summam complectens, ... congesta: nuper verò emendata et locupletata.
Paris, Guillaume Julian, 1552. 16mo (11.5 x 7.5 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial, 2 vine-leaf ornaments (Vervliet 173 & 169) and paragraph marks. Set in roman and italic types with incidental Greek. Old limp parchment, sewn on 3 cords, blue edges. 104 ll. Full description

CHAMPIER, Symphorien. Castigationes seu emendationes pharmacopolarum, sive apothecariorum, ac Arabum medicorum Mesue, Serapionis, Rafis, Alpharabii, & aliorum iuniorum medicorum ...
(Colophon:) Lyon, Johannes Crespin, 1532. 2 parts in 1 volume (bound in reverse order). 8vo. With an armorial woodcut on the title page to the second part (bound as the opening title page), repeated several times in the text, and numerous woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, richly blind-tooled in a panel design. LVI, CXII ll. Full description

CORDUS, Valerius. De halosantho seu spermate ceti vulgo dicto, liber nunc primum in lucem abditus.
Zürich, [Jacob Gessner], 1566. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a woodcut initial. Modern paper boards, early marbled edges. [3], 37 ll. Full description