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CESALPINO, Andrea (1519-1603). Quaestionum Peripateticarum Lib. V. -Daemonum investigatio Peripatetica...secunda editio. -Quaestionum Medicarum Libri II. -De Medicament. facultatibus Lib.II. Venice: Giunta, 1593.
Four parts in one volume, 4o (213 x 156 mm). Woodcut printer's device on main title, a few woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut initials, many historiated. Sixteenth-century English calf (rebacked, corner of front free endpaper excised).
Provenance: Dr. Francis Bernard (1627-1698), with purchaser's note on front free endpaper "bought at Dr. Bernard's auction Lond. 1698." His signature presumably excised from upper fore-corner. Dr. Bernard's library "was reputed to be the largest collection of books on physics [i.e. medicine] ever made in England" (DSB). The auction took place on October 4, 1698 (see De Ricci, p. 32); early inscription below mentioning the significance of the work with regard to circulation; Early shelf slip with author's name tipped on lower margin of B6; 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate with motto "In promptu".
This collected edition comprises second editions of the first two works, and First Editions of the third and fourth, respectively. The final work contains the first recording in print of the results of tying a vein and the centripetal flow in veins (see lib. ii, Qu. xvii, p. 234). Cushing C155; Garrison-Morton 756; Heirs of Hippocrates 195; NLM/Durling 925; Osler 901; Waller 1878; Wellcome 1182; Norman 431.
Four parts in one volume, 4o (213 x 156 mm). Woodcut printer's device on main title, a few woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut initials, many historiated. Sixteenth-century English calf (rebacked, corner of front free endpaper excised).
Provenance: Dr. Francis Bernard (1627-1698), with purchaser's note on front free endpaper "bought at Dr. Bernard's auction Lond. 1698." His signature presumably excised from upper fore-corner. Dr. Bernard's library "was reputed to be the largest collection of books on physics [i.e. medicine] ever made in England" (DSB). The auction took place on October 4, 1698 (see De Ricci, p. 32); early inscription below mentioning the significance of the work with regard to circulation; Early shelf slip with author's name tipped on lower margin of B6; 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate with motto "In promptu".
This collected edition comprises second editions of the first two works, and First Editions of the third and fourth, respectively. The final work contains the first recording in print of the results of tying a vein and the centripetal flow in veins (see lib. ii, Qu. xvii, p. 234). Cushing C155; Garrison-Morton 756; Heirs of Hippocrates 195; NLM/Durling 925; Osler 901; Waller 1878; Wellcome 1182; Norman 431.