FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-66). Compendiaria ac succincta admodum in Medendi artem Εiσaγvγh, seu introductio. Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1531. White-on-black woodcut title-border. Stillwell (Awakening) 371; NLM 1672; Stübler 22. FIRST EDITION. - Jacopo BERENGARIO (ca. 1460-1530). Isagogae Breves et Exactissimae in Anatomiam Humani Corporis. Ed. Heinrich Seybold. [Strassburg: Heinrich Seybold, 1530]. 24 woodcut anatomical illustrations, mostly full-page. NLM 535; Choulant-Frank 140. Second edition, FIRST GERMAN EDITION. - Joachim SCHILLER (fl. 1531). De Peste Brittannica Commentariolus vere Aureus. Ad haec Alexandri Benedicti Veronensis ... de observatione in pestilentia libellus. The second text edited by Alban Thorer. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1531. Printer's woodcut device, white-on-black woodcut historiated initials. NLM 4121; Wellcome 5843. FIRST EDITION of Schiller's treatise, FIRST GERMAN EDITION of that by Alessandro Benedetti (d. 1525). - Giorgio VALLA (1447-1500), attributed to. De Urinae significatione, ex Hippocrate, Paulo Aeginata, ac Theophilo. With the pseudo-Galenic Quaestiones in Hippocratem and Diocles Carystius's Epistola de bona valetudine tuenda. Ed. Heinrich Seybold. Strassburg: Heinrich Seybold, [1528?]. Woodcut historiated title-border, initials. NLM 4488. Apparently the FIRST EDITION.8° (155 x 98 mm.). 4 works bound in one volume. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, flap with brass clasp, catch in centre of front cover, old paper labels on spine, some deckle edges and several sheets unopened. Provenance: Sixtus Kapsser 1560, court physician to Duke Albrecht of Bavaria (woodcut armorial bookplate, woodcut portrait).A very fine Sammelband of four German medical books, ALL OF THE GREATEST RARITY. The treatise by Berengario da Carpi is probably the rarest; its woodcuts were copied from the original edition published at Bologna in 1523. Kapsser no doubt gathered the tracts and commissioned the wallet-style binding, ensuring their survival IN IMMACULATE CONDITION.

FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-66). Compendiaria ac succincta admodum in Medendi artem Εiσaγvγh, seu introductio. Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1531. White-on-black woodcut title-border. Stillwell (Awakening) 371; NLM 1672; Stübler 22. FIRST EDITION. - Jacopo BERENGARIO (ca. 1460-1530). Isagogae Breves et Exactissimae in Anatomiam Humani Corporis. Ed. Heinrich Seybold. [Strassburg: Heinrich Seybold, 1530]. 24 woodcut anatomical illustrations, mostly full-page. NLM 535; Choulant-Frank 140. Second edition, FIRST GERMAN EDITION. - Joachim SCHILLER (fl. 1531). De Peste Brittannica Commentariolus vere Aureus. Ad haec Alexandri Benedicti Veronensis ... de observatione in pestilentia libellus. The second text edited by Alban Thorer. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1531. Printer's woodcut device, white-on-black woodcut historiated initials. NLM 4121; Wellcome 5843. FIRST EDITION of Schiller's treatise, FIRST GERMAN EDITION of that by Alessandro Benedetti (d. 1525). - Giorgio VALLA (1447-1500), attributed to. De Urinae significatione, ex Hippocrate, Paulo Aeginata, ac Theophilo. With the pseudo-Galenic Quaestiones in Hippocratem and Diocles Carystius's Epistola de bona valetudine tuenda. Ed. Heinrich Seybold. Strassburg: Heinrich Seybold, [1528?]. Woodcut historiated title-border, initials. NLM 4488. Apparently the FIRST EDITION. 8° (155 x 98 mm.). 4 works bound in one volume. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, flap with brass clasp, catch in centre of front cover, old paper labels on spine, some deckle edges and several sheets unopened. Provenance: Sixtus Kapsser 1560, court physician to Duke Albrecht of Bavaria (woodcut armorial bookplate, woodcut portrait). A very fine Sammelband of four German medical books, ALL OF THE GREATEST RARITY. The treatise by Berengario da Carpi is probably the rarest; its woodcuts were copied from the original edition published at Bologna in 1523. Kapsser no doubt gathered the tracts and commissioned the wallet-style binding, ensuring their survival IN IMMACULATE CONDITION.

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FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-66). Compendiaria ac succincta admodum in Medendi artem Εiσaγvγh, seu introductio. Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1531. White-on-black woodcut title-border. Stillwell (Awakening) 371; NLM 1672; Stübler 22. FIRST EDITION. - Jacopo BERENGARIO (ca. 1460-1530). Isagogae Breves et Exactissimae in Anatomiam Humani Corporis. Ed. Heinrich Seybold. [Strassburg: Heinrich Seybold, 1530]. 24 woodcut anatomical illustrations, mostly full-page. NLM 535; Choulant-Frank 140. Second edition, FIRST GERMAN EDITION. - Joachim SCHILLER (fl. 1531). De Peste Brittannica Commentariolus vere Aureus. Ad haec Alexandri Benedicti Veronensis ... de observatione in pestilentia libellus. The second text edited by Alban Thorer. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1531. Printer's woodcut device, white-on-black woodcut historiated initials. NLM 4121; Wellcome 5843. FIRST EDITION of Schiller's treatise, FIRST GERMAN EDITION of that by Alessandro Benedetti (d. 1525). - Giorgio VALLA (1447-1500), attributed to. De Urinae significatione, ex Hippocrate, Paulo Aeginata, ac Theophilo. With the pseudo-Galenic Quaestiones in Hippocratem and Diocles Carystius's Epistola de bona valetudine tuenda. Ed. Heinrich Seybold. Strassburg: Heinrich Seybold, [1528?]. Woodcut historiated title-border, initials. NLM 4488. Apparently the FIRST EDITION.

8° (155 x 98 mm.). 4 works bound in one volume. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, flap with brass clasp, catch in centre of front cover, old paper labels on spine, some deckle edges and several sheets unopened. Provenance: Sixtus Kapsser 1560, court physician to Duke Albrecht of Bavaria (woodcut armorial bookplate, woodcut portrait).

A very fine Sammelband of four German medical books, ALL OF THE GREATEST RARITY. The treatise by Berengario da Carpi is probably the rarest; its woodcuts were copied from the original edition published at Bologna in 1523. Kapsser no doubt gathered the tracts and commissioned the wallet-style binding, ensuring their survival IN IMMACULATE CONDITION.

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