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[RYFF, WALTHER HERMANN.]
Kurtzes Handbüchlin, und Experiment,
viler Artzneyen, durch den gantzen Cörper dess Menschens . . . durch Q.
Apollinarem
[pseud.]
an Tag gegeben.
Botanical text woodcuts throughout. [8], 198,
[2] leaves, including 2 blanks at end.
BOUND WITH
: WEYER [or WIER], JOHANN.
Artzney Buch: von etlichen biss anher unbekandten unnd unbeschriebenen
Kranckheiten.
5 woodcut text illustrations. [14], 115, [3] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in
one. 8vo, 146x96 mm, contemporary Wittenberg binding by Adam or Abraham Müller of
blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, covers decorated
with Faith/Patience/Charity/Hope roll around panel filled with repeated impressions of
foliate tools; contents toned with marginal dampstaining and soiling, scattered ink stains,
clean tear in F7 in the first work, later owner’s pencil scrawls on rear endpapers.
Frankfurt am Main: (Paul Reffeler for Hartmann Hahn), 1579;
(Nicolaus Basse), 1583
[1,500/2,500]
Later edition of a popular collection of herbal remedies originally published in 1549, bound
with the second edition in German of a 1567 Latin treatise on rare and previously undescribed
diseases. Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I, 275.
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SAINT-YVES, CHARLES DE.
Nouvelle Traité des Maladies des Yeux, les
Remèdes qui y conviennent, & les Opérations de Chirurgie que leurs Guérisons
exigent.
[30], 373, [33] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, cover
corners worn through; light to moderate foxing, scattered minor stains, blank lower outer
corner off ã11, front free endpaper lacking. Bookplate of the University of Chicago Library
with release stamp.
Paris: Pierre-Augustin Le Mercier, 1722
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
.
SIGNED BY SAINT
-
YVES
on page [5]. This work records the first removal of a
cataract from a living subject, the first extensive use of silver nitrate in treating eye diseases,
including its first use for ophthalmia neonatorum, and the first exact description of gonorrheal
ophthalmia. Garrison-Morton 5827; Becker 322.
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