Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

130 131 129 c   EGUÍA Y ARRIETA, FÉLIX FERMÍN DE, translator. Formulario de Medi- camentos, experimentado de muchos Años á esta Parte en los Hospitales de los Reales Exercitos. [8], 175 pages. 8vo, 142x97 mm, later 18th-century tree sheep gilt; small ink stain in blank outer margin of several leaves toward beginning, last leaf foxed. Madrid: Gabriel Ramírez, (1749) [80/120] Translation of an unidentified Latin drug formulary.This edition not in Palau. 130 c   [GIANNOTTI RANGONI,TOMMASO.] Thomae Philologi [pseud.] . . . De vita hominis ultra CXX annos protrahenda. [4], 115 [i. e., 120], [2] leaves. 4to, 210x151 mm, old stiff wrappers, soiled; scattered faint dampstains. Venice: [Comin da Trino?], 1550 [but dated 1551 at end] [400/600] first edition of a regimen for health maintenance and longevity,“crammed with classical erudition, historical examples, citations of the Arabs and Peter of Albano, and astrological passages including the seven spirits of the seven planets”—ThorndikeV, 206. 131 c   GUTHRIE, GEORGE JAMES. On Gun-Shot Wounds of the Extremities, requiring the Different Operations of Amputations, and their After-Treatment. 4 engraved plates. xxxii, 384, [10] pages. 8vo, 228x144 mm, 20th-century cloth; plates heavily foxed, light to moderate foxing of text, title stained and rehinged, small hole through a couple of letters on H1; uncut. Bookplate of Emanuel and Lillian Friedberg on otherwise blank verso of title, causing discoloration on recto. London: (Barnard and Farley for) Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 [800/1,200] first edition of the standard English-language work on the subject through the first half of the 19th-century, based on Guthrie’s experiences during the Peninsular Campaign of the NapoleonicWars. Garrison-Morton 2161; Norman 957.