Live auction - Lot 1054

[Medicine - Health care]

VROLINGH, Abraham Lenertsz

Matroosen gesontheyt, of Goede dispositie der zee-varende lieden. Handelende van velerley sieckten en gebreken der menschen in 't gemeen: maar bysonderlijck van de scheurbuyck of schimmel-sieckte, den zee-lieden meest onderworpen [...]. Vermeerdert met Putmans manuael.

Amsterdam, A. van den Heuvel, 1666

€ 200 / 300

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Lot description

2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [8]-283-[20], 86-[9] pp. (some marg. dampst. and light browning throughout).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (soiled).

Very rare Amsterdam ed. of this medical manual for sailors, focused on scurvy and fungal infections ("schimmel-sieckte") that affect mainly sailors, by the surgeon Vrolingh. Completed with a recipe book against the plague ("pest-boecxken") by E. Putman.
Ref. Cp. Krivatsy (1646 and 1680 ed.), Wellcome IV:449 (1663 ed.) - Not in STCN, Garrison & Morton, Lindeboom, Pauly.

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Lot 1054

Matroosen gesontheyt, of Goede dispositie der zee-varende lieden. Handelende van velerley sieckten en gebreken der menschen in 't gemeen: maar bysonderlijck van de scheurbuyck of schimmel-sieckte, den zee-lieden meest onderworpen [...]. Vermeerdert met Putmans manuael.

VROLINGH, Abraham Lenertsz

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