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

176 176 c   ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii. 47 plates on 43 leaves, all but the first 4 folding, comprising 47 subjects after Eustachi with accompanying duplicates in outline. [8], 28, 277 [i. e., 275], [3] pages, including half-title. Folio, 397x247 mm, contemporary vellum, worn; text toned, occasional foxing and stains marginally affecting some plates, scattered pencil marginalia on text leaves and plates, clean tear in blank lower margin of plate 25, scored signatures on title, owner’s notes on rear free endpaper. Leiden: (Typographia Dammeana for) Johannes Arnold Langerak et al., 1744 [800/1,200] first albinus edition of Bartolommeo Eustachi’s Tabulae anatomicae, and the first to include outline duplicates as a learning aid. The engravings of Eustachi’s drawings were completed in the mid-16th century but remained unpublished until their rediscovery in the Vatican Library in the early 18th century, when they were presented by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, who first published them in 1714. Garrison-Morton 391 (original edition, “more accurate than the work of Vesalius”); Choulant-Frank, page 202; Heirs of Hippocrates 326 (this edition). 177 c   AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD. Nouvelle Méthode pour reconnaître les Maladies Internes de la Poitrine. Latin text with French translation and commentary by Jean-Nicolas Corvisart Des Marets. xxiii, [1], 440, [2], 4 pages, including half-title, errata leaf, and publisher’s 4-page catalogue at end. 8vo, 214x132 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 red morocco, spine heavily worn, front cover detached; scattered light foxing; uncut. Signature on half-title ofWilliam SydneyThayer, M.D., dated Baltimore, 1917. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1808 [500/750] first edition of this translation of Auenbrugger’s 1761 Inventum novum.The publication of Corvisart’s version led to the general recognition of the value of thoracic percussion as a diagnostic measure. Heirs of Hippocrates 955; Garrison-Morton 2672 note. medicine , continued