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[3], 37 ll.First and only edition of a treatise on certain salts sometimes found in crystaline "efflorescences" from the surface of the sea, which Dioscorides and Galen had recommended for the treatment of skin diseases. The Hessian doctor and botanist Valerius Cordus (1515-1544) left this treatise unpublished at his premature death, and Conrad Gesner added a preface and "Corollarium" for its posthumous publication in his compilation, De omni rerum fossilium genere, but the treatise with corollarium is separately signed and foliated for separate publication as well. Gessner's corollarium, slightly longer than the treatise itself, refutes the popular notion that these salts were the sperm of whales. Slightly browned with some occasional stains, once resulting in a small hole (leaf 9), and some, mostly marginal, foxing. Bookblock detached from binding, otherwise in good condition.l Adams, G-522/[5]; Durling 1033; Osler 646/[5]; Sinkankas 2366/5.
Annotationes in P. Dioscorides De Medica Materia Libros V., &c by Cordus, Valerius - 1561
by Cordus, Valerius
Annotationes in P. Dioscorides De Medica Materia Libros V., &c
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Argentorati (Strassburg): Iosias Rihelius, 1561. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Foliated. 232 (of 301) ff. Woodcut historiated initials. 275 woodcuts of plants. Contents: Valerii Cordi Simesusi, in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica Materia, lib. V; Historia Plantarum, lib. IV; Conradus Gesnerus (Konrad Gesner) Caspari Collino Pharmocopoeo; Silva Observationum uariarum, Valerii Cordi; Val. Cordi de Artificiosis Extractionibus; Val. Cordi Compositiones Medicinales Aliquot, non Vulgares; and the beginning of Stocc-Hornii et Nessi in Bernatium Heluetuorum. Early 19th or late 18th century binding of quarter leather, marbled paper boards; gilt rules on spine; black leather lettering piece, gilt, titled: DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI OPERA. Lacking title page, 7 preliminary leaves (Dedicatory Matter,m Preface and Epigrammata), folios 232 and 235, and 236 to the end (Gesner's Hortae Germaniae and the index). With the armorial bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid. A few tiny wormhboles occasionally affecting a letter or a woodcut line, but generally in non-printed areas; some leaves with a light tide mark; a very good copy which, even tough lacking title and colophon, contains all of the celebrated woodcuts. Occasional notes in a contemporary hand which also usually crosses through the name of Gesner.
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De halosantho seu spermate ceti vulgo dicto, liber nunc primum in lucem abditus.Zürich, [Jacob Gessner], 1566. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a woodcut initial. Modern paper boards, early marbled edges.
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Novum dispensatorium, hoc est, pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio: quam ab ipso olim auctam, nunc à quamplurimis mendis expurgatam in lucem edimus.Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1563. 12mo. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine reinforced with white paper.
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[24], 444 pp.Early edition (the second printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi) of the first official city pharmacopoeia, first published posthumously in Nürnberg in 1546 with an appendix by Jaques Dubois (1478-1555), also known as Jacobus Sylvius. The city of Nürnberg adopted the first edition as the official standard that all city apothecaries were required to follow. The book's influence went far beyond Nürnberg, however, for numerous publishers in several countries produced dozens of editions in the original Latin and in German, Dutch and French translations. Many cities, especially in Germany and the Low Countries, either adopted it as their own standard or used it as a model to write their own pharmacopoeia. The present "Novum" edition follows Valgrisi's 1556 edition, but adds "Medicamentorum omnium compositorum, quae in hoc opere continentur, facultates" (pp. 1-65).Cordus (1515-1544), physician and botanist, studied at Marburg and Leipzig, working in his uncle's apothecary shop in the latter. He…
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De Omni Rerum Fossillium Genere, Gemmis, Lapidibus, Metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi.
by Gesner, Konrad; Gessner; Johannes Kentmann; Georg Fabricus; Georg Agricola; Severin Goebel; Valerius Cordus; Francois La Rue
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Zurich, Switzerland: Iacobus Gesnerus, 1565. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Published 1565-1566. Detached title page is worn, soiled, creased and has small chips. Minor soiling and creasing to text of Part 1. Minor worming to Part 7. Worming to Part 8, which lacks the final 7 leaves (14 pages). Front board lacking, rear board detached, spine defective. Small 8vo (6.26 inches/159mm). Some early marginalia in a tiny neat hand scattered throughout the text and margins..
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