[MEDICINE]. BOTALLO, Leonardo (ca. 1519-1587/88). Commentarioli duo, alter de medici, alter de aegroti munere. Lyon: Antonius Gryphius, 1565. 16o (118 x 79 mm). 336 leaves. Printer's device on title, woodcut illustrations in text. (Light browning.) Contemporary calf gilt, gilt and gauffered edges (worn). Provenance: Alexander Wrzheim, 1626; Ariel Petrus Mllensis; Dr. Schupp; Roth (ownership inscrptions on title and endpapers).FIRST EDITION of Botallo's treatise about medical ethics and the physician-patient relationship. It reveals Botallo as skeptical of the value of astrology in medicine. Adams B-2541; NLM/Durling 646; STC/French, p. 76; Waller 1329; Norman 280 -- Prospero ALPINI (1553-1617). De praesagienda vita, et morte aegrotantium. Venice: Heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1601. 4o (216 x 157 mm). 188 leaves. Printer's device on title. (Minor marginal worming.) Contemporary limp vellum (light wear to edges). FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 2194; Norman 40 -- Jacques GRVIN (1539-1570). Deux livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, theriaques, poisons & contrepoisons... Ensemble, les oeuvres de Nicandre, mdecin et pote grec, traduictes en vers franois. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1568. 4o (213 x 161 mm). 218 (of 220) leaves. Woodcut illustration in text. (lacks I1 and I4, supplied in manuscript, few leaves with marginal repairs.) Contemporary limp vellum (some staining). Provenance: Charles, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (bookplate). FIRST EDITION Adams G-1245; NLM/Durling 2173; Waller 3740; Wellcome 2934; Norman 943 -- Thomas VICARY (1490?-1561). The anatomie of the bodie of man... the edition of 1548, as re-issued by the surgeons of St. Bartholomews in 1577. With a life of Vicary, notes on surgeons in England, Bartholomew's Hospital, and London, in Tudor times, an appendix of documents, and illustrations. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall and Percy Furnivall. London: N. Trbner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, 1888. 8o. 172 leaves. 5 plates, one folding and illustrations in text. Buckram, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: "Elliot C. Cutler from HC Xmas 1930" (presentation copy inscribed by Harvey Cushing to American surgeon Elliot Carr Cutler. Reprint of the first English anatomy published in the vernacular, from the 1577 second edition. Osler 4169; Waller 9949; Norman 2149. (4)

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[MEDICINE]. BOTALLO, Leonardo (ca. 1519-1587/88). Commentarioli duo, alter de medici, alter de aegroti munere. Lyon: Antonius Gryphius, 1565. 16^o (118 x 79 mm). 336 leaves. Printer's device on title, woodcut illustrations in text. (Light browning.) Contemporary calf gilt, gilt and gauffered edges (worn). Provenance: Alexander Wrzheim, 1626; Ariel Petrus Mllensis; Dr. Schupp; Roth (ownership inscrptions on title and endpapers).FIRST EDITION of Botallo's treatise about medical ethics and the physician-patient relationship. It reveals Botallo as skeptical of the value of astrology in medicine. Adams B-2541; NLM/Durling 646; STC/French, p. 76; Waller 1329; Norman 280 -- Prospero ALPINI (1553-1617). De praesagienda vita, et morte aegrotantium. Venice: Heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1601. 4^o (216 x 157 mm). 188 leaves. Printer's device on title. (Minor marginal worming.) Contemporary limp vellum (light wear to edges). FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 2194; Norman 40 -- Jacques GRVIN (1539-1570). Deux livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, theriaques, poisons & contrepoisons... Ensemble, les oeuvres de Nicandre, mdecin et pote grec, traduictes en vers franois. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1568. 4^o (213 x 161 mm). 218 (of 220) leaves. Woodcut illustration in text. (lacks I1 and I4, supplied in manuscript, few leaves with marginal repairs.) Contemporary limp vellum (some staining). Provenance: Charles, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (bookplate). FIRST EDITION Adams G-1245; NLM/Durling 2173; Waller 3740; Wellcome 2934; Norman 943 -- Thomas VICARY (1490?-1561). The anatomie of the bodie of man... the edition of 1548, as re-issued by the surgeons of St. Bartholomews in 1577. With a life of Vicary, notes on surgeons in England, Bartholomew's Hospital, and London, in Tudor times, an appendix of documents, and illustrations. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall and Percy Furnivall. London: N. Trbner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, 1888. 8^o. 172 leaves. 5 plates, one folding and illustrations in text. Buckram, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: "Elliot C. Cutler from HC Xmas 1930" (presentation copy inscribed by Harvey Cushing to American surgeon Elliot Carr Cutler. Reprint of the first English anatomy published in the vernacular, from the 1577 second edition. Osler 4169; Waller 9949; Norman 2149. (4)