Abraham

1690 · réf. ABC_45462 — The Hague 1690. 8vo. Pieter Hagen Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. Ad 1: with 3 title pages each with one of 2 woodcut decorations woodcut initials. 2 works in 1 volume the first in 3 parts. 20 140; 169-538 14 pp. Ad 1: First and only edition of three very rare medical and pharmacological treatises published together by the German physician Jansz Abraham Gehema 1647-1715. Gehema studied in Leiden where he settled as a physician before returning to Berlin in 1695. All three treatises translated into Dutch by “G.D.C.” from the original German were originally published in Bremen in 1688 as:1 Grausame medicinische Mord-Mittel: Aderlasse Schröpfen Purgieren Clystiren Zuleppen und ohnmachtmachende Herzstärkungen. Containing serious warnings against the evil practices of charlatans and quacks such as blood-letting purgation and suspicious prescriptions noting that they have killed many people.2 Der Reformirte Apotheker fürstellende ein ohnmaaßgeliches Project wie und welcher Gestalt die heutige Apotheken billich zu reformiren und nach einer bey allen verständigen und gewissenhaften Medicis unnmehro angenommener rationalen medendi methodo einrichten werden. A proposal to reform pharmacies to modern standards.3 Diaetetica rationalis das ist auff unläugbahren festen principiis gesunde Vernunft und wahren experience wolgegründete Lebens-Ordnung wodurch ein jeder Mensch in einem Stande seine Gesundheit wahren und ein von mancherlei beschwerden befreytes Leben hie auff Erden führen könne. Instructions for a healthy lifestyle.Although the Dutch edition gives each work its own title page and each begins on the first page of a quire so that they could have been sold separately they share a single series of page numbers and quire signatures.Ad 2: An incomplete copy of another very rare book with a curious combination of texts edited by Ulricus Huberus professor of law at Franeker University lacking the title page preliminaries and pp. 1-168 which contain excerpts from Aristotle’s Ethica. Texts still present are René Descartes Passiones. sive affectus animae pp. 169-299 Ulrich Huber Institutionis reipublicae liber singularis pp. 301-494 and exerpts from Ovid’s Metamorphosis under the title Argumenta Metaµfse excerpta ex Ovidio pp. 495-538.With a near-contemporary annotation on the verso of the flyleaf facing the title page giving a list of contents in Dutch "Inhout van deesen Bandt. 1. Grouwelijke Medicijnse Moortmiddelen. 2. Renati Cartesii passiones sive affectus Animi. 2. Institutionis Reipublicae Liber Singularis.". Ad 2 is incomplete lack the title page the preliminaries and the first 168 pp. spine somewhat wrinkled but still in good condition.l Ad 1: STCN 081374259 2 copies incl. 1 incompl.; USTC 1823366 3 copies incl. 2 also in STCN Wellcome III p. 99; cf. Krivatsy 45999 1688 German ed.; ad 2: STCN 830313737 4 copies; USTC 1837107 4 copies same as STCN. hardcover