Details
(i) THONER, Augustin (1567-1655). Observationum medicinalium, Ulm: J. Gerlin, 1651, 4° (title soiled and with small perforation, accession stamp on following leaf), old vellum (crudely rebacked, front cover replaced by a non-uniform cover of parchment). [Krivatsky 11834]
(ii) TULP, Nicholas (1593-1674). Observationes medicae. Editio nova. libri quarto auctior, et sparsim ... emendatior, Amsterdam: Ludovic Elzevir, 1652, small 8°, second edition, engraved title (dampstained and crinkled at margins, with fairly recent ownership inscription at upper margin, and with bookplate on verso), 20 full-page engraved illustrations (lacking portrait which is supplied in facsimile, heavily browned or dampstained in lower half of most leaves, library stamps on *2r&v), contemporary limp vellum (spine crudely repaired). [GM 3737: "One of the earliest accounts of beri-beri is on pp. 300-05 of this work. Tulp, notable as the demonstrator in Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson,' was among the first, in the same book, to describe the ileo-caecal valve ('Tulp's valve'). The first edition was published in 1641"; Krivatsy 12008; Waller 9716]
(iii) GRAAF, Renier de (1641-1673). Opera omnia, Leiden: I. A. Huguetan, 1678, 8°, second edition, engraved portrait and title after P. Pinchard, 23 folding engraved plates and 18 full-page illustrations (one folding plate frayed at outer margin, lacking the unnumbered preliminary before A1 though with final blank, some dampstains, O6-T6 with marginal worming, lower corner of Y2 torn away with slight loss, marginal notes in an early hand cropped), early 19th-century calf-backed boards (joints cracked) [Krivatsy 4906; Waller 3675; Wellcome III, p. 142: all calling for an unumbered preliminary before A1 which this copy lacks, although the text appears continuous] (iv) SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624-1689). Opera universa, London: J. Heptinstall for Walter Kettilby, 1705, 8°, third edition, engraved portrait, contemporary panelled calf (lightly rubbed, back cover dampstained). [Blake p. 442]
Together with two other works by Waldschmidt and van Helmont (the latter extremely browned). (6)
(ii) TULP, Nicholas (1593-1674). Observationes medicae. Editio nova. libri quarto auctior, et sparsim ... emendatior, Amsterdam: Ludovic Elzevir, 1652, small 8°, second edition, engraved title (dampstained and crinkled at margins, with fairly recent ownership inscription at upper margin, and with bookplate on verso), 20 full-page engraved illustrations (lacking portrait which is supplied in facsimile, heavily browned or dampstained in lower half of most leaves, library stamps on *2r&v), contemporary limp vellum (spine crudely repaired). [GM 3737: "One of the earliest accounts of beri-beri is on pp. 300-05 of this work. Tulp, notable as the demonstrator in Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson,' was among the first, in the same book, to describe the ileo-caecal valve ('Tulp's valve'). The first edition was published in 1641"; Krivatsy 12008; Waller 9716]
(iii) GRAAF, Renier de (1641-1673). Opera omnia, Leiden: I. A. Huguetan, 1678, 8°, second edition, engraved portrait and title after P. Pinchard, 23 folding engraved plates and 18 full-page illustrations (one folding plate frayed at outer margin, lacking the unnumbered preliminary before A1 though with final blank, some dampstains, O6-T6 with marginal worming, lower corner of Y2 torn away with slight loss, marginal notes in an early hand cropped), early 19th-century calf-backed boards (joints cracked) [Krivatsy 4906; Waller 3675; Wellcome III, p. 142: all calling for an unumbered preliminary before A1 which this copy lacks, although the text appears continuous] (iv) SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624-1689). Opera universa, London: J. Heptinstall for Walter Kettilby, 1705, 8°, third edition, engraved portrait, contemporary panelled calf (lightly rubbed, back cover dampstained). [Blake p. 442]
Together with two other works by Waldschmidt and van Helmont (the latter extremely browned). (6)