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KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470). Fasciculus medici[n]e[.] Praxis tam chirurgis quam etiam physicis maxime necessaria. Venice: Cesar Arrivabene, March 1522.
2° (308 x 212mm). Double column in roman type. Title within woodcut rococco border, 10 full-page woodcut illustrations, 3- to 12-line woodcut floreated and historiated initials, publisher’s device on verso of H3. (Upper margins with small repairs throughout, C2 browned, without final blank H4.) Late 19th/early 20th-century half vellum and marbled boards, morocco spine label, uncut; red half leather clamshell case.
A CELEBRATED VENETIAN BOOK OF MEDICINE. Johannes de Ketham is now convincingly identified as Hans von Kirchiem of Swabia, professor of medicine at Vienna, who used this collection of medical tracts for his lectures, and recommended them to his pupils. The collection named after him had already been in circulation since 1400, and was first printed at Venice, 1491, by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis; though also printed in Spain, it remained primarily a Venetian book. The cuts in this edition, in the manner of Mantegna, show human anatomy, a medical lecture, consultations with patients, and a portrait of Petrus de Montagnana. Deriving from the earlier Venetian editions, and most probably by the Poliphilo master, they included the earliest examples of anatomical illustration known to Choulant-Frank. Arrivabene also published an Italian translation in 1522. Choulant-Frank, p.115; NLM/Durling 2660; Essling 592; Sander 3753; not in Adams or BL/STC.
2° (308 x 212mm). Double column in roman type. Title within woodcut rococco border, 10 full-page woodcut illustrations, 3- to 12-line woodcut floreated and historiated initials, publisher’s device on verso of H3. (Upper margins with small repairs throughout, C2 browned, without final blank H4.) Late 19th/early 20th-century half vellum and marbled boards, morocco spine label, uncut; red half leather clamshell case.
A CELEBRATED VENETIAN BOOK OF MEDICINE. Johannes de Ketham is now convincingly identified as Hans von Kirchiem of Swabia, professor of medicine at Vienna, who used this collection of medical tracts for his lectures, and recommended them to his pupils. The collection named after him had already been in circulation since 1400, and was first printed at Venice, 1491, by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis; though also printed in Spain, it remained primarily a Venetian book. The cuts in this edition, in the manner of Mantegna, show human anatomy, a medical lecture, consultations with patients, and a portrait of Petrus de Montagnana. Deriving from the earlier Venetian editions, and most probably by the Poliphilo master, they included the earliest examples of anatomical illustration known to Choulant-Frank. Arrivabene also published an Italian translation in 1522. Choulant-Frank, p.115; NLM/Durling 2660; Essling 592; Sander 3753; not in Adams or BL/STC.
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