Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

191 c   LAVEDÁN, ANTONIO. Tratado de los Usos, Abusos, Propiedades y Virtudes del Tabaco, Café, Té y Chocolate. [10], 237, [1] (of [3]) pages; lacks final blank. 8vo, 191x119 mm, contemporary tree sheep, rubbed, spine ends chipped; scattered marginal dampstains, contemporary owner’s signature on title, old stamp of the Instituto Científico de México, S. A., on page 21. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796 [400/600] Second edition of a 1785 work on the characteristics, preparation, consumption, and medicinal virtues of tobacco, coffee, tea (including yerba mate in Paraguay), and chocolate. Arents 1125; Müller, pages 125- 26; Palau 133234; Simón Palmer 887. 192 c   LEMNIUS, LEVINUS. De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII. [16], 868 [i. e., 871], [73] pages. 153x93 mm, contemporary limp green-dyed vellum, worn, with spine title in white ink and front cover stamped with monogram T S V and dated 1592; contents browned and soiled with occasional marginal dampstaining, scattered passages or words scored, old inscriptions on front pastedown and title, wormtrail through several index leaves slightly affecting text. Jena: Tobias Steinmann (for Nicolaus Knoper), 1588 [150/250] Compilation of miscellaneous natural and medical lore first published in 1559. Durling 2774; Thorndike VI, 393-94. 193 c   MARINELLO, GIOVANNI. Gli Ornamenti delle Donne. [8], 376 leaves; lacks the final 36 leaves containing the table of contents and index. 8vo, 143x95 mm, 19th-century vellum boards, covers slightly warped; dark stain in upper margins through much of volume, scattered other stains, repairs in lower outer corner of title with one letter in imprint partly supplied in ink. Venice: Giovanni Valgrisi, 1574 [200/300] Second edition of a collection of health and beauty advice for women first published in 1562, with extensive recipes for remedies and cosmetics. 194 c   MORTON, RICHARD. Phthisiologia; seu, Exercitationes de phthisi tribus libris comprehensae. [24], 411, [5] pages, including initial license leaf, penultimate errata leaf, and final blank. 8vo, 188x114 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, cover corners restored; occasional marginal dampstaining, gathering 2A heavily offset. Early signatures of H. Bowen on license leaf and John Robertson on title; modern bookplates of W. E. Stanley Merrett and Kenneth Rapoport. London: Samuel Smith, 1689 [400/600] first edition . “The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis. Morton, like Sydenham, based his work on his own clinical observations, with very few references to books . . . the first chapter contains the first description of anorexia nervosa”—Norman 1555. Garrison-Morton 3216; Wing M2831. 195 c   OSLER, WILLIAM, Sir. Aequanimitas. With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses, and Practitioners of Medicine. [8], 389 pages. 8vo, 199x132 mm, original cloth, binding cocked, spine slightly faded, ends rubbed; foxing at beginning and end, endpapers browned. London: H. K. Lewis, 1904 [300/500] first edition . Golden & Roland 1356. With the author’s compliments slip mounted on the front pastedown, inscribed in another hand to “W. S(?). Church,” possibly the physician Sir William Selby Church (1837-1928). medicine , continued