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MUKHTAR IBN AL-HASAN, called IBN BUTLAN. Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar... De sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conservandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit de virtutibus medicinarum & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus de rerum gradibus. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1531.
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MUKHTAR IBN AL-HASAN, called IBN BUTLAN. Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar... De sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conservandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit de virtutibus medicinarum & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus de rerum gradibus. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1531.
2o (287 x 208 mm). 86 leaves (including final blank). Title printed in red and black, tables on pp. 38-116 and side notes on pp. 39-117 printed in red, 40 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANS WEIDITZ at foot of pages. (A few old tape repairs at beginning, some marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary black blind-tooled goatskin (repairs to spine and covers). Provenance: Surgeon General's Office Library (bookplate with withdrawn stamp, inkstamp on title).
FIRST EDITION. The woodcut illustrations by Hans Weiditz illustrating the table are of various subjects including plants, animals, humors, diseases and cookery. Adams I-11; Durling 2520; Heirs of Hippocrates 69; Vicaire 323.
[Bound with:] IBN JAZLAH (d. 1100). Tacuini aegritudinum et morborum ferme omnium corporis humani, cum curis eorundem. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1532.
2o. (Tables on A3-4 shaved at bottom.)
FIRST EDITION. This work was composed in the 12th century and is another medical synopsis in tabular form. It was translated from the Arabic by Farag ben Salemi and edited by the Augsburg physician Adolph Occo. The 44 tables deal with the pathology and therapeutics of 352 diseases. NLM/Durling 4774; Wellcome I: 1148.
[Bound with:] ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA (d. 1311). Commentum novuz in parabolis divi Arnaldi di valla nova. Ed. Diego Alvarez Chanca. Seville: Jacob Cromberger, 1514.
2o. Woodcut on title. (I1.10 in facsimile, some dampstaining.)
Early Spanish edition of Villanova, and very rare. No copies of this work appear in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years. Adams A-1984; NLM/Durling 315; Palau 365590; Thatcher II:97.
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FIRST EDITION. The woodcut illustrations by Hans Weiditz illustrating the table are of various subjects including plants, animals, humors, diseases and cookery. Adams I-11; Durling 2520; Heirs of Hippocrates 69; Vicaire 323.
[Bound with:] IBN JAZLAH (d. 1100). Tacuini aegritudinum et morborum ferme omnium corporis humani, cum curis eorundem. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1532.
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FIRST EDITION. This work was composed in the 12th century and is another medical synopsis in tabular form. It was translated from the Arabic by Farag ben Salemi and edited by the Augsburg physician Adolph Occo. The 44 tables deal with the pathology and therapeutics of 352 diseases. NLM/Durling 4774; Wellcome I: 1148.
[Bound with:] ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA (d. 1311). Commentum novuz in parabolis divi Arnaldi di valla nova. Ed. Diego Alvarez Chanca. Seville: Jacob Cromberger, 1514.
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Early Spanish edition of Villanova, and very rare. No copies of this work appear in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years. Adams A-1984; NLM/Durling 315; Palau 365590; Thatcher II:97.