Live auction - Lot 707
[Public health - Denmark]
De medicina Danorum domestica dissertationes X [...].
Kopenhagen, Mathias Godiche for Per Haubold, 1666
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-527-[1] pp. (some browning).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat ink titled spine.
First edition of this gathering of writings on various topics relating to medicine in Denmark including the achievements of Danish physicians, epidemiology, folk medicine, diet, and the Danish pharmacopoeiea. Th. Bartholin (1616-1680) was a Danish physician, mathematician and theologian best known for the first full description of the human lymphatic system and his theory of refrigeration anesthesia. Title in red & black.
Ref. BnF. - Krivatsy 810. - COPAC. - Not in Wellcome.
Prov. Old ownership entries.