Ortus medicinae. Id est, Initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam. Edente authoris filio Francisco Mercurio Van Helmont cum ejus praefatione ex Belgico translatâ [...].

4to: [36]-894 [= 884]-[48] pp. (traces of a sm. fire incident on lower corner of the bookblock, with repaired corners in sellotape on the ff. near the end; normal spotting and some min. browning).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat ink-titled spine (endpapers renewed, some spots on the upper cover).

Second Elzevier edition (1st 1648) containing collected medical essays by J.B. van Helmont (1577-1644) edited by his son Franciscus Mercurius (1618-1699), and some smaller treatises on bladder calculus, fevers and plague. Ill. with one full-page engr. with fine portraits of father and son Van Helmont, surrounded by 8 coats of arms. Woodcut mark on title. Text in 2 col.
ref. Krivatsy 5432. - Wellcome III:241. - Willems 1141. - Sondervorst, Hist. de la médecine belge, pp. 104-110. - Cp. Walleriana 4307 (1st ed.).
Prov. Ms. entry dated 1697 on front pastedown.