Live auction - Lot 689
Praelectiones academicae in proprias institutiones rei medicae edidit, et notas addidit Albertus Haller [...].
Turin, ex Typographia Regia, 1742-1745
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
5 parts in 6 vol., 4to: xvi-532, vii-555, vii-341, xii-236, [2]-282, 395 pp. (some quires spotted and browned).
Contemp. calf (some min. scratches, some corners sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (last 4 vol. with diff. decoration on spines: unidentified initials topped with a crown), red leather title labels, red edges, marbled endpapers. Nice set.
Second edition and standard collection by Haller (1708-1777) of the courses given by the famous Leiden professor Boerhaave (1668-1738), ranging from "arteria, cor, pulmo, sanguis" (part I), over "sensus, somnus" (III), "menstrua, conceptus" (IV, 2) to "pathologia, hygiene" (VI).
Ref. Blake 54. - Wellcome II:190. - BnF. - COPAC.
Prov. Bookseller's ticket.