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HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus].
Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, Opera, quae ad nos extant, omnia.
Venise, apud Vicentium Valgrisium, 1546.
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950 €
Rare Venice edition of the works of Hippocrates by the humanist physician Janus Cornarius (1500-1558).
The printing is the work of Vicenzo Valgrisi one of the most famous printers of Venice in the 16th century, his typographic work is of high quality.
CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus).
De Re medica libri octo.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1549.
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900 €
Edition by Jean de Tournes.
De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine.
It is an extremely interesting history of medicine and surgery, including the symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter, tonsillectomy, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures. (Heirs of Hippocrates).
The edition is followed by the poem De medicina (composed of 1115 hexameter lines) with precepts borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides on the art of healing) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a Latin author assassinated under the orders of Caracalla in 212. At the end is the poem by Q. Rhemnius Palaemon on weights and measures.
The entire work was annotated at the time in the margins in fine 16th-century handwriting. On almost every page, passages are underlined and.
GALIEN (Claudius Galenus).
Claudii Galeni Pergameni Introductio in pulsus ad Teuthram.
Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1550.
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500 €
Collection of four treatises by Galen published by Guillaume Rouillé:
- Introduction in pulsus ad teuthram, 1550 translated by Martino Gregorio
- De Differentiis febrium libri duo, 1570 translated by Laurentiano Florentino
- De Diebus decretoriis libri tres, 1553 translated by Joanno Guinterio Andernaco
- De Elementis libris duo, 1558 translated by Victore Trincavelio.
Galen (129-210 BC) is considered the last of the great creative physicians of Greco-Roman antiquity and, with Hippocrates, one of the founders of the great basic principles on which Western medicine is based.
HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean.
Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins.
Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1550.
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2500 €
First edition in french.
These aphorisms are considered one of the founding texts of Western medicine. They contain principles and observations about health, disease and medical practice.
Each Aphorism in Latin is followed by its translation and commentary in French.
Some handwritten notes in the margins of writing from the beginning of the 17th century.
MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae nostris temporibus ignoratae libri sex.
Venise, Iuntas, 1569.
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2000 €
First edition.
Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), when the body had been somewhat neglected by the medieval culture, was inspired by the principle of Juvénal: Mens sana in corpore sano and offers us by studying the texts of antiquity the first book of gymnastic.
"[...] its knowledge interests any man who professes medicine, especially since one finds in Hippocrates, Plato and Galen the affirmation repeated over and over again according to which exercises, if one wishes to lead a healthy life, provide benefits so great and so numerous that it is scarcely that the other resources of medicine provide so many. " (translation of part of book III)
"Heir to the galenic tradition, Mercuriale draws from Greek and Latin literature, but also from his contemporaries. Using both his medical knowledge and the achievements of antiquaria, he wrote the first treatise on gymnastics in our history, the 6 books of De Arte Gymnastica "(Jean-Michel Agasse," Le De arte gymnastica de Girolamo Mercuriale: archeology and body culture in the Renaissance ", doctoral thesis)
The folding board is the proposal for a Gymnasium plan.
MONTEUX, Jerôme de.
Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit.
Paris, Simon Calvarin, à l'enseigne de la Rose blanche couronnée, 1572.
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800 €
Second french edition.
Jérôme de Monteux, lord of Miribel, gave birth to Catherine de Médicis of the future François II and was medical adviser to Henri II.
Treatise on medicine borrowing from the ancients their advice for leading a healthy life: dietetics, sleep, economy of passions.
Published in Latin in 1557, we discover implicitly what daily life could be like at the court of France in the middle of the 16th century.
GORDON, Bernard (de).
Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum.
Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1574.
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1500 €
A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.
PICHOTUS, Petrus.
De rheumatismo, catharrho variisque a cerebro destillationibus, & horum curatione Libellus.
Burdigalae, S. Millangium, 1577.
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900 €
Rare first edition.
It's the first use of the word "rheumatism".
The root ‘rheum’ refers to bodily fluids rather than ‘rheumatism’ as we know it today.
This book is about curing the common cold, rather than ailments of the joints.
MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert.
De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus.
Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
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500 €
Edition published same year as the first edition in Venice.
Pioneering work on knowledge on poisons.
Some period handwritten annotations in the margins.
FOESIO, Anutio, HIPPOCRATE.
Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis opera omnia quae extant.
Francofurdi, Andrea Wecheli, 1595.
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1800 €
First edition of this important translation from greek to latin of the Hippocratic corpus.
Remains the reference until its replacement by the French edition of Littre [1839-1861].
The Hippocrates works are a set of sixty text written between 450 and 350 bc.
During the sixteenth century, scholars have gradually given rise to the Hippocratic Corpus in Latin, which was current until its replacement by the French edition of Littre [1839-1861].
The editions that enabled this achievement are the first editions in Latin (1525 in Rome) and Greek (1526, Aldus), which led to the discovery of manuscripts hitherto virtually unknown.
Then came the Basel editions of 1538 and 1546 (Froben) that led to the systematic correction of many first editions.
Finally, in 1595, the doctor of Metz Anuce Foes (1528-1595) printed this important bilingual edition that became the reference until the Littré works 250 years later.
Fresh copy of this rare and important edition of the works of Hippocrate.
MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.
Venise, Iuntas, 1601.
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1000 €
Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.
"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.
LA BROSSE, Guy (de).
De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes.
Paris, Rollin Baragnes, 1628.
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700 €
First edition.
Guy de La Brosse was Louis XIII's regular physician and founder of the Jardin du Roi (ancestor of the Jardin des Plantes). The last part, entitled "Dessein d'un Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales", presents the project for the future Jardin des Plantes.
While the author remains famous for having successfully completed this project, he is also known for having been one of the first French Paracelsians. This work, one of the first great French botanical treatises, detailing the medicinal virtues of plants, their classification and their therapeutic use, is very much inspired by Bacon and Paracelsus. The book illustrates in a very clear way one of the schools of thought of the nascent revolution, that of Paracelsianism.
GUIBELET, Jourdain.
Examen de l'examen des esprits.
Paris, Veuve Jean de Heuqueville et Louis de Heuqueville, 1631.
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800 €
First edition.
Critical work of the Examen de ingenios para las sciencias by Juan Huarte de San Juan, which had been, in 1575, the first modern treatise to study the relationship between psychology and physiology.
Guibelet offers an in-depth analysis and a refutation of some of Huarte's theses, thus entering into the intellectual debates of the time on the nature of intelligence and human aptitudes. This text constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of the reception of psychological and medical theories at the dawn of the 17th century.
Title page in the name of the Heuquevilles with whom Soly (who appears on the privilege) shared the edition.
BEVERWYCK, Jan van.
De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.
Leyden, Elzevier, 1638.
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First edition of this famous work in urology, one of the earliest medical books to accept William Harvey's account of the circulation of the blood.
Bound after, two rare books on the plague :
- PAAW, Pierre. Tractatus de Peste. Leyde, Abraham Commelini, 1636
- Theodore de BEZE. De Pestis Contagio et Fuga. 1636
RARE COPY WITH THE ARMS OF FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTE DE THOU.
BACHOT, Etienne.
Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.
Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1646.
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600 €
First edition.
Doctor-poet, Étienne Bachot (1608-1688) here chose the French language to defend bloodletting. If the use of bloodletting was then, in the middle of the seventeenth century, at its peak; some criticisms began to appear. With his membership in the Paris faculty, Bachot answers them in this work.
WECKER, Jean Jacques.
Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.
Lyon, Jean Aymée Candy, 1652.
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600 €
Jean-Jacques Wecker (1528-1585) German physician, philosopher and alchemist. This book contains beauty secrets, advice on destroying parasites, information on dyes, varnishes and gilding, gardening, preserving fruit, making ink, how to remove stains, amusing physics tricks... and more esoteric chapters on demons and alchemy.
MATTIOLI, Per André.
Les commentaires de M. P. André Matthiolus, médecin senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen, de la matière médecinale.
Lyon, Claude Prost, 1655.
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1200 €
Latest revised and corrected edition, expanded.
Translation from Latin into French by Antoine du Pinet.
The work comments on the six books of Dioscorides on medicinal materials, with additions on simple remedies, oils, distillations and the treatment of various diseases. Our edition is illustrated with a full-page portrait of the author and numerous small woodcuts in the text representing a large number of carefully engraved plants, as well as some crustaceans, fish, shellfish, insects, animals, scenes of country life. In fine, Brief discourse on the distillation of water with figures showing distillation apparatus. Mattioli, in addition to his work to match ancient botanical descriptions with contemporary botany, describes more than 100 new plants and notably one of the first European varieties of tomato.
NALDI, Mathieu.
Aphorismorum Hippocratis explanatio.
Rome, Ignatii de Lazaris, 1657.
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350 €
First edition of this commentaries by Mathieu Naldi.
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates were considered until the 19th century as a "bible" of medicine
Matthew Naldi (or matteo / or Naldius), a seventeenth-century physician, born in Siena, became famous for his knowledge of oriental languages, which was used here to serve the Greek aphorisms of Hippocrates.
He taught for some time in Pisa with great brilliance, and became physician to Pope Alexander VII. This high dignity did not prevent him from giving courses in Rome, where he contributed greatly to the flourishing of the University. He died in 1682, at a very advanced age.
Copy in a tinted parchment binding, unusual for the time, probably of Italian manufacture.
[Barbiers chirurgiens].
Arrest d'audience du parlement confirmatif de l'union des chirurgiens jurez, & barbiers chirurgiens. A la charge de soubmission à la faculté de médecine. Avec défense de prendre qualité de bacheliers, licentiez, docteurs & college : faire lectures ny actes publics : porter robes, ny bonnets, prononcé le septieme febvrier 1660.
Paris, François Muguet, 1660.
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750 €
First edition.
VIGIER, Jean.
Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrate.
Paris, Jean d'Houry, 1666.
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120 €
Translation of the aphorisms of Hippocrates by Jean Vigier, a doctor from Castres, who died in 1659.
The book opens with the Hippocratic oath.
MAURICEAU, François.
Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc.
Paris, Jean Henault, 1668.
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5000 €
First edition.
Illustrated with 30 gynecological and obstetric engravings in the text.
François Mauriceau (1637-1709), first midwife surgeon at the Paris Maternity Hospital, is considered the founder of French obstetrics.
Mauriceau's work on pregnancy and childbirth established obstetrics as an independent science and had, thanks to its numerous translations, a determining influence on obstetric practice in the 17th century.
[BONET, Théophile].
Observations et histoires chyrurgiques tirées des Oeuvres de quatre excellens médecins.
Genève, Pierre Chouët, 1669.
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350 €
French translation and observations of Bonet from the works of Pierre La Forêt, Félix Plater, Balthazar Timaeus and Pierre de Marchettis.
DE LA FONT, Charles.
Dissertationes duae medicae de veneno pestilenti, in quarum priori agitur de veneni pestilentis natura et causis [...].
Avignon, Pierre Offray, 1670.
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600 €
First edition.
Work devoted to the Plague whose author defends that it would be due to the corrosive action of saline vapors (such as Arsenic or Mercury). It comes to contradict certain position of the Englishman Thomas Willis on this subject. Europe and more particularly England then just experienced an epidemic of the Great Plague.
HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van.
Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte.
Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.
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850 €
First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.
WILLIS, Thomas.
Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.
Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1670.
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450 €
Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.
"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).
HUARTE, Jean.
L'Examen des Esprits pour les Sciences.
Amsterdam, Jean de Ravestein / Pierre Mortier [Daniel Elzevier], 1672.
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400 €
First edition of the French translation by François Savinien d'Alquié.
Beautiful Elzevirian edition decorated with a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
On our copy, a butterfly replaces the name of the publisher with that of Pierre Mortier with the date of 1704.
Fresh copy.
GALATHEAU, Pierre de.
Dissertation sur la Digestion de l'Estomach, touchant l'humeur acide.
Paris, François Muguet, 1675.
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1800 €
First edition of this scarce work of gastroenterology.
Not in the usual bibliographies (Osler, Heirs, Waller, Cole, Morton, Dezeimeris, ......).
Portal in his dictionary of anatomy (1770) mentions an edition of 1676. He says of this work that it is not very interesting, Galatheau following the system of Willis on digestion.
Traces of this work can also be found in the correspondence of Pierre Bayle:
"There is a doctor from Bourdeaux named Mr Galatheau who I was told was from Religion, who had a Treatise on Digestion printed foods where he fights the opinion of the moderns who want it to be done by an acid humor whose sharp parts do what strong water produces in metals."
Neither his peers nor posterity have been kind to Pierre de Galatheau, however we note on page 13 of his treatise that he uses a microscope to observe the mucous membrane of the stomach:
"the pores of this part are larger and more dilated than the others, as the microscope shows..."
A completely innovative process since Leeuwenhoek's first microscopic observations were only presented to the Royal Society in 1673.
GLISSON, Francis.
Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, de partibus continentibus in genere, & in specie, de iis abdominis.
Amsterdam, Jacobum Juniorem, 1677.
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300 €
Edition published same year as the first published in London.
MASSARD, Jacques.
Panacée, ou discours sur les Effets singuliers d'un Remède experimenté, & commode pour la guérison de la pluspart des longues maladies; même de celles qui semblent incurables.
Grenoble, Chez l'Auteur, 1679.
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300 €
First edition.
Book describing Massard's Panacea, which is supposed to cure all ills. Many cases of cures come to praise its virtues.
LOWER, Richard.
Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.
Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679.
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1500 €
First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.
Complete copy of the 7 required plates.
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