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[MICHAL PIOTR BOYM] (1614-1659) and ANDRÉ CLEYER (1634?-1698)
Specimen Medicinæ Sinicæ, sive Opuscula Medica ad Mentem Sinensium. Frankfurt: Joannis Petri Zubrodt, 1682. 4° (208 x 162mm). Title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, thirty engraved plates in Part VI, De Indiciis morborum, woodcuts in text, with blank at (G)4. (Two leaves of 'Paradigmata' on the pulse misbound after title-page and two trimmed closely, affecting a few letters only, five plates shaved at plate mark and two shaved just affecting lower extremity of image.) Contemporary calf with gilt arms on upper and lower covers of the Duke and Duchess of Sante-Maure de Montausier [Olivier 451 fer 1, medium size], gilt cipher at corners and in five spine compartments [Olivier 451 fer 3, medium size], covers triple-ruled in gilt (maroon calf label relaid, minor restoration of extremities of upper joint). Modern morocco-backed box. Provenance: Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duc de Montausier (1610-1690), and his wife Julie-Lucie d'Angennes, Mademoiselle de Rambouillet (1607-1671); the Robinson copy, sold by Sotheby's, 22 November, 1988.
A VERY FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY ARMORIAL BINDING OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST WESTERN BOOK ON CHINESE MEDICINE abstracted from works by Wang Shu-ho and other Chinese medical writers on anatomy, acupuncture, the pulse, circulation of the blood and symptoms of diseases. Boym himself is reported as having written the section on drugs. The extraordinary plates are re-printings of rare Chinese medical illustrations with newly engraved Latin captions and appear to have been printed on paper from China or the East Indies. The publication of Boym's work is complicated by the strained relations at the time between the Dutch East India Company and the Society of Jesus. In 1658 Boym entrusted his manuscript to fellow Jesuit Philippe Couplet for shipment to Batavia and thence to Europe for printing. The VOC, however, suppressed Boym's name, believing that the Jesuits in Peking were responsible for their failed mission to China. The editor, Cleyer, a physician and botanist attached to the VOC in Batavia, used some of these same Chinese medical works as well as Boym's work for his own "Clavis Medica ad Chinarum" 1686. Cordier Sinica 1470; Lust 1183; Wellcome II, 359.
Specimen Medicinæ Sinicæ, sive Opuscula Medica ad Mentem Sinensium. Frankfurt: Joannis Petri Zubrodt, 1682. 4° (208 x 162mm). Title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, thirty engraved plates in Part VI, De Indiciis morborum, woodcuts in text, with blank at (G)
A VERY FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY ARMORIAL BINDING OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST WESTERN BOOK ON CHINESE MEDICINE abstracted from works by Wang Shu-ho and other Chinese medical writers on anatomy, acupuncture, the pulse, circulation of the blood and symptoms of diseases. Boym himself is reported as having written the section on drugs. The extraordinary plates are re-printings of rare Chinese medical illustrations with newly engraved Latin captions and appear to have been printed on paper from China or the East Indies. The publication of Boym's work is complicated by the strained relations at the time between the Dutch East India Company and the Society of Jesus. In 1658 Boym entrusted his manuscript to fellow Jesuit Philippe Couplet for shipment to Batavia and thence to Europe for printing. The VOC, however, suppressed Boym's name, believing that the Jesuits in Peking were responsible for their failed mission to China. The editor, Cleyer, a physician and botanist attached to the VOC in Batavia, used some of these same Chinese medical works as well as Boym's work for his own "Clavis Medica ad Chinarum" 1686. Cordier Sinica 1470; Lust 1183; Wellcome II, 359.
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