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

236 c   CHAPUIS, ALFRED; and GÉLIS, ÉDOUARD. Le Monde des Automates. 7 plates with lettered tissue guards; 540 text illustrations. 2 volumes. 4to, 280x226 mm, contemporary 1 / 4 black leather with original wrappers bound in, spines scuffed, wrappers soiled and spotted; negligible foxing on Volume 1 preliminaries, contents otherwise generally clean. Paris, 1928 [400/600] first edition of the classic history of the development of automata from antiquity to the 19th century, with chapters on related subjects including artificial limbs in orthopedics. number 840 of 1000 sets . 237 c   HEER, MARTIN. Introductio in archivum archei vitale et fermentale viri magnifici Johannis Baptistae van Helmont, philosophi per ignem. [8], 356, [30] pages, including errata leaf and final blank. 4to, 188x146 mm, modern binding of old liturgical manuscript vellum over boards, covers slightly warped; contents browned. Lauban [now Luban, Poland]: Augustin Vogel, 1702 [150/250] first edition of an introduction to Helmont’s theory of the archeus, or vital principle, a concept derived from Paracelsian doctrine. Partington II, 234. 238 c   LÉON, DE SAINT-JEAN. Studium sapientiae universalis. Contextus scientiae humanae. Folding engraved ecclesiastical map of France; woodcut or engraved maps and diagrams in text. [12], 82; [2], 734; 64, [40] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 349x221 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt with later lettering piece, top of spine chipped, surface wear on covers, cover corners worn through; occasional toning or browning, isolated minor stains, additional title mounted. Paris: Jacques Quesnel, 1657 [400/600] first edition of a compendium of secular knowledge covering grammar, history, poetry and mythology, oratory and rhetoric, dialectics, logic, physics, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, cosmology, geography, optics, and metaphysics. The author was a Carmelite who published 2 additional volumes on religious knowledge in 1664-65. 236 238