Live auction - Lot 929
[Medicine]
De urinis tractatus [...].
Zerbst, B. Schmidt (Faber), 1595
€ 250 / 350
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Lot description
8vo: [12]-196 (=194)-[2 bl.] pp. (toned, some soiling, 1st work wormed with loss of letters).
Cont. blind-stamped dark calf (worn, head and tail def., corners bumped).
Very rare ed. of a treatise on urology by the Italian physician Girolamo Capivaccio (1523-1589), printed in Zerbst (Saxony-Anhalt). Title in red and black. Ref. VD-16 C-859. - Durling 521. - STC German (BL) 180. - Not in Adams, Wellcome. Prov. 17th-c. Jesuit ownership entry on 1st title. Bound with: 1. Pinaeus, Severinus – Opusculum physiologum, anatomicum [...] tractans analytice notas primo integritatis & corruptionis virginum, deinde grauiditatem, & partum naturalem mulierum, in quo ossa pubis & ilium distrahi, dilucide docetur. Frankfurt (Main), Z. Palthenius, 1599. 8vo: 23-[1 bl.]-141-[3 bl.] pp. Rare treatise on gynaecology, esp. virginity and childbirth, by the French physician Pineau (d. 1619). Woodcut mark on title. 6 woodcuts (1 folding). Ref. VD-16 P-2813. - Adams P-1214. - Durling 3655. - STC German 697. - Wellcome I:5041.- 2. Wilich, Jodocus & Reusner, Hieronymus - Urinarum probationes [...] in quibus principia solidae uroscopiae, ad solidae philosophiae fontes reuocantur [...]. His accessere variae matularum delineationes atq(ue) genuini urinarum colores. Remedia item plurima ex urina desumpta: maxima uero ex parte chemica. Basel, S. Henricpetri, September 1582. 8vo: [24]-304 (of 341) pp. (lacking all after T8). Treatise on uroscopy "new style" by J. Willich (1501-1552) and H. Reusner (fl. 1582-1588). Numerous woodcuts of uroscopy flasks. Ref. VD-16 W-3257. - Adams W-192. - Durling 4744. - STC German 917. - Wellcome I:6745. (3 vol.)