Scientific Instruments and Clocks Online Auction

November 15, 2012

LOT 51

Lot 51

Library of Sir James Young Simpson, (Scottish, 1811-1870), Three Renaissance Medical Texts, 17th century

Library of Sir James Young Simpson, (Scottish, 1811-1870), Three Renaissance Medical Texts, 17th century
Lot 51 Details
Library of Sir James Young Simpson, (Scottish, 1811-1870), Three Renaissance Medical Texts, 17th century

1) Antonio Deusingio, Historia Foetus in Abdomine Geniti, 1661, leather bound,

2) Vellum Sammelband; Francisci Plazzoni, De Partibus Generation Inservientibus Libri Duo, Quibus omnium & singulorum organum utriussque sexus, ad generationem concurrentium, Strutura, actiones & usus, Item Gregorii Nymmani de Vita Foetus in Utero Dissertatio, 1644

3) Vellum sammelband; Capari Barthonlini Thm. F. De Ovariis Mulierum et Genertaionis Historia Epistola Anatomica antea Romæ edita, 1678, Archæus Syncopticus, Eccardi Leichneri Archæo Synoptico contra Parænesin ad Discentes oppositus à D. Paulo Ammanno, 1674, full vellum

each appox. 5.1" x 3.1" — 13 x 8 cm.

Estimate $500-$700

Realised: $444
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

Library of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh

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