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Highlights from the Royal Society of Medicine
[GALENUS, Claudius (129-c. 216)]
Methodus medendi, vel de morbis curandis. Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete. [Edited by Gulielmus Budaeus]. [Paris]: D. Maheu [for G. Hittorp], 1519.
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[GALENUS, Claudius (129-c. 216)]
Methodus medendi, vel de morbis curandis. Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete. [Edited by Gulielmus Budaeus]. [Paris]: D. Maheu [for G. Hittorp], 1519.
Rare first edition of Thomas Linacre's Latin translation of Galen's Methodus medendi, a major treatise on the principles and practice of therapeutics. Thoroughly annotated by a series of hands and bearing the ownership inscription of the celebrated German physician Christian Gottfried Gruner (1744-1815), a pioneer of medical historiography whose works analyzed the writings of Hippocrates and other classical physicians. The last copy recorded at auction was a defective copy (lacking the title) sold in 1954. Adams G-93; Wellcome 2634.
Folio (322 x 210mm). Title within elaborate wooduct border incorporating putti and grotesques, woodcut headpiece and initials (lacking final errata leaf with colophon, verso of final text leaf somewhat dust-stained). Later panelled vellum with large central decorative blindstamp, red edges (neatly rebacked, binding rather dust-stained, boards slightly bowed). Provenance: annotated throughout in Latin in various 16th to 18th-century hands, most seemingly German, including a fine contemporary hand extending the chapter summaries in the margins of index leaves – A.B. (initials on title) – unidentified German ownership inscription on title – Christian Gottfried Gruner (1744-1815, German physician and professor of medicine at Jena) —Royal Society of Medicine (library inkstamp to title, dedication, final text leaf and errata [Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society 10 Nov 1887]).
Methodus medendi, vel de morbis curandis. Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete. [Edited by Gulielmus Budaeus]. [Paris]: D. Maheu [for G. Hittorp], 1519.
Rare first edition of Thomas Linacre's Latin translation of Galen's Methodus medendi, a major treatise on the principles and practice of therapeutics. Thoroughly annotated by a series of hands and bearing the ownership inscription of the celebrated German physician Christian Gottfried Gruner (1744-1815), a pioneer of medical historiography whose works analyzed the writings of Hippocrates and other classical physicians. The last copy recorded at auction was a defective copy (lacking the title) sold in 1954. Adams G-93; Wellcome 2634.
Folio (322 x 210mm). Title within elaborate wooduct border incorporating putti and grotesques, woodcut headpiece and initials (lacking final errata leaf with colophon, verso of final text leaf somewhat dust-stained). Later panelled vellum with large central decorative blindstamp, red edges (neatly rebacked, binding rather dust-stained, boards slightly bowed). Provenance: annotated throughout in Latin in various 16th to 18th-century hands, most seemingly German, including a fine contemporary hand extending the chapter summaries in the margins of index leaves – A.B. (initials on title) – unidentified German ownership inscription on title – Christian Gottfried Gruner (1744-1815, German physician and professor of medicine at Jena) —Royal Society of Medicine (library inkstamp to title, dedication, final text leaf and errata [Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society 10 Nov 1887]).
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