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

199 198 c   SCRIBONIUS LARGUS. Compositiones medicae. Edited with notes and an annotated index by Johan Rode. 2 engraved plates; 12 text illustrations. [24], 144; 465, [42] pages, including half-title and blank last preliminary leaf. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 215x154 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine darkened; occasional toning and light marginal soiling, small stain on half-title, title and next leaf reinforced in gutter, fore-edge tab on fly- title to index partly detached. Old Capuchin inscription on title. Venice: Paulus Frambottus, 1655 [400/600] Pharmacological compilation dating from the 1st century A.D. containing the earliest descriptions of the preparation of opium and the application of electrotherapy (using the shock of a torpedo fish to cure headache). Garrison-Morton 1785 and 1984.1 (1528 original edition); Choulant, Handbuch, page 181; Krivatsy 10745; Sarton I, 241. 199 c   SCULTETUS, JOHANNES, the Elder. Cheiroplotheke; seu . . . Armamentarium chirurgicum . . . Editio Quinta. 15 folding engraved plates and 28 full-page illustrations. [24], 317, [11] pages, including engraved additional title. 8vo, 177x114 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened with small piece missing; contents clean apart from show-through on leaves with full-page illustrations and few small ink blots on page 17, short clean tear in blank outer margin of plate 35. Later ownership inscription (“Ex Libris Bartholomei Rivierii”) on front pastedown. Venice: Combi & La Noù, 1665 [1,000/1,500] “A complete catalogue of all known surgical instruments of the period, of the methods of bandaging and splinting, and of a vast number of operative procedures, all of which are portrayed in the book’s forty-three engraved plates”—Norman 1912 (1655 original edition). Garrison-Morton 3669.1, 5571; Heirs of Hippocrates 466; Krivatsy 10750 (this edition).