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Erscheinungsdatum: 1745
Anbieter: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Deutschland
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Lugduni Batavorum, apud Gerardum Potvliet, 1745, 4°, 11 Bl., 325, (45) pp., (2), pp.73-258, (2), 8 Kupferstichtafeln, Kalbsledereinband der Zeit mit reichlicher Rückenvergoldung; Gelenke angeborchen, aber fest, ein feines Exemplar. Alpini (1553-1617) was an Italian physician and botanist who graduated from Padua and traveled through Greece, Crete, and Egypt from 1580 to 1583.First printed in 1591, this work on Egyptian medicine gives the first European recognition of the medicinal value of coffee. The second work by Jacob de Bondt is an important work on diseases of the East Indies. It includes the first modern descriptions of cholera, tropical dysentery, yaws, and beri-beri.
Verlag: Nicolaum Redelichuysen, Paris, 1645
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good condition. First edition. Octavo. (11) 150 (25), 39 (1) leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. First title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Historiated and decorative headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Both titles second editions, Alpini's title first published in 1591, Bondt's in 1642. Alpini was a physician and botanist, Bondt a Dutch physician and pioneer of tropical medicine. Alpini's work is illustrated with four in-text and two full page woodcuts. Alpini traveled in Egypt and became the fourth prefect of the Botanical Garden in Padua. "One of the earliest European studies of nonwestern medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion - the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin - which Alpini introduced into European medicine. Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work" (Norman). With extensive index at rear. De Bondt was a pioneer of tropical medicine. His work on East Indian medicine included here is based on experiences during four years he spent in Djakarta. It was the first important treatise on diseases in East India and includes the first modern description of Cholera and other tropical diseases. First published posthumously in 1642. Index at rear. Text in Latin. Binding with light wear along edges and rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Ex-Libris of German-born British professor of chemistry Franz Sondheimer on inside front cover. The first four leaves frayed with small chips at lower foredge, no loss of text, a few small inked entries and a small stamp of the Royal Medical Society Edinburgh on front cover. Title page with paper reinforcement on back. First in-text woodcut with stamp in center, second woodcut with stamp grazing image, third and fourth with stamp outside imagery. The two full page woodcuts with stamps grazing the border of image. Some light sporadic foxing of block and last page with chipping along edges, some loss of the printed word Index, and foxing and browning along edges. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
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[11], 150, [25]; 39, [1] ff.17th-century edition of the first important work on the history of Egyptian medicine, by Prospero Alpino, first published in 1591, with the second edition of Jacob de Bondt s study of medicine in the East Indies, first published (separately) in 1642, both in the original Latin. Alpino (1553-1617) was an Italian physician and botanist who spent three years in Egypt studying botany and hygiene as a companion to the Venetian Consul Giorgio Emo. His present work is considered "one of the earliest European studies of non-western medicine" (Norman Lib.). Jacob de Bondt (1592-1631), whose work on East Indian medicine is included, was a Dutch physician and botanist. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he gained there. It is the first Dutch work [NB: by a Dutch author and first published in the Netherlands, but in Latin] on tropical medicine and includes the first modern descriptions of beri-beri and cholera" (Garrison & Morton 2263, citing the 1642 first edition).Binding with slight brown stains in places. Small tear in 3rd leaf, not affecting text; occasional browning.l Caillet 230; Krivatsy 236; Wellcome II, 36; Hirsch/Hübotter I, 101 & 627; Hunt Lib. 161 (note); Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 32; Osler 1796; USTC 6035345; Waller 12509; cf. Garrison & Morton 6468; Heirs of Hypocrates 384 & 463 (1646 & 1642 eds.); Norman Lib. 39 (1591 ed.).