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

178 c   AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD.) Rozière de la Chassagne, [-]. Manuel des Pulmoniques; ou, Traité Complet des Maladies de la Poitrine . . . On y a joint une nouvelle Méthode de reconnoître ces mêmes Maladies par la Percussion du Thorax, traduite du Latin d’Auenbrugger. 12, 319, [1]; [2], 4, 60 [i. e., 62] pages. 12mo, 166x99 mm, contemporary sheep-backed paste-paper boards, spine ends rubbed; light marginal soiling on title, faint dampstain in outer margin of last leaf, contents otherwise clean. Paris: Humaire, 1770 [300/500] first edition of Rozière’s book on pulmonary diseases, containing the first edition in french of Auenbrugger’s 1761 Inventum novum, first describing thoracic percussion. Neither the original version in Latin nor Rozière’s translation drew much notice, and Auenbrugger’s discovery was largely ignored until publication of Corvisart’s version in 1808. Norman 82. 179 c   BAUHIN, CASPAR. De Hermaphroditorum monstrosorumq[ue] partuum natura ex theologorum, iureconsultorum, medicorum, philosophorum, & rabbinorum sententia. Title within engraved historiated border with Frankfurt imprint dated 1600, and portrait of the author on verso; 5 full-page engraved illustrations by Johann Theodor de Bry; folding letterpress table classifying causes of monstrous births; folding plate supplied in facsimile. 36, 572, [4], [573]-594, [2] pages, including blanks 2N7-8 and errata leaf at end; lacks B2. 8vo, 162x95 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, spine darkened and damaged at top, recased, endpapers renewed; contents severely browned apart from the plate, imprint in title border abraded with partial text loss, paper flaws in upper outer corner of F6 slightly affecting text. Naples Capuchin stamp on leaf after title. sold as is . Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1614 [400/600] first edition of an early work on hermaphroditism and monstrous births drawing uncritically on a wide range of medical and non-medical sources, also including discussions of satyrs, incubi and succubi, lycanthropes, etc. Caillet 846; Krivatsy 940. 179