Translated by jacques gohory (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 3rd Edition. French translation from the 1st edition in Latin, Occulta Naturae Miracula, published 1559. 12mo, collated as, Title page with woodcut of viking ship, pp2, pp213 plus 30 pages of alphabetical index to rear. Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Slightly later rebind of full leather with 5 raised bands and leather title label to spine and half of the "Gen de Paris" stamp to front cover. Binding in good condition with some rubbing to all edges and boards and a little chipping to top of back board. Inside, except for the very odd mark, all pages with all edges dyed red, in excellent clean and bright condition with no foxing, waterstains, fingermarks etc. . For added interest the bookplate of Baron Hyacinthi Theodori, dean of the Faculté de médecine de Paris circa 1720s is pasted to front pastedown. Levinus Lemnius was a celebrated Dutch physician, whose medical writings were much translated. He studied under the famous Swiss botanist and bibliographer Konrad Gesner at the University of Louvain and under the famous Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius at the University of Padua. This Renaissance treatise on natural philosophy and medicine draws on classical sources, particularly Aristotle with Lemnius being influenced by the "airs, waters, places" doctrine from the Hippocratic Corpus. This important work includes explanations of demonology, somnambulism, and the physical causes of mental illness, the properties and healing virtues of herbs and gemstones, alongside oddities like hermaphrodites. An superb copy of a very scarce early work with an interesting provenance.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. A rare, late 16th century edition of Lemnius's Occult Marvels and Secrets of Nature, with Several Teachings on Various Things, Both by Probable Reason and by Artificial Conjecture. This is the French translation by Jacques de Gohory, after the original 1559 Latin imprint. An early edition of this famous book of secrets, Lemnius collects a tremendous selection of various medical problems and seeks out cures, through both medical and natural lore. Sources and information are drawn from ancient Greek, Hebrew, Arab, and Latin sources, presented and commented on in a rather haphazard fashion. Among some of the topics touched upon are those on somnambulists, diseases caused by demons, the virtue of gems or herbs, hermaphrodites, and much more. The work was immediately popularized and spread throughout the region, seeing numerous reprints over the decades, with an English edition being printed in the mid 17th century. A learned student under Dodoens, Gessner, and Vesalius, Lemnius was a well-trained Dutch physician after 40 years of practicing his work, and remained pragmatic at the core, relying on conventional medicine and treatments instead of any astronomical or occult practices. The title page is lacking, with an early (likely 17th century) handwritten copy added. Leave 168 is also lacking, replaced by a photocopy tipped in, though it appears to be one from a different edition. USTC records 22 existing copies of this edition in libraries. One finely bound volume in 12mo, 210 of 212+(20) leaves This volume is in very good shape, with minimal rubbing and wear to the binding. There is some wear to the first and last handful of leaves, with some foxing and staining throughout, again, heavier to the first and last handful of leaves. There are a few, tiny, marginal restorations.…