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‘A rare and curious collection: it is unexpected to Wnd such a mélange with
the advertisement for Dr. Trigge’s Water in the middle. The translator, Robert
Turner was a well­known astrologer and botanist who translated several occult
works as well as issuing The British Physician which was chieXy devoted to the
medicinal virtues of various herbs. He dedicated the present work to William
Backhouse (1593–1662) who devoted his time to the study of occult sciences
and became renowned as an alchemist, rosicrucian and astrologer and who
gave great encouragement to those addicted to similar pursuits and especially
to Elias Ashmole whom he adopted as his son and to whom he imparted all
his secrets.’ (Duveen.)
Only a small portion of Paracelsus’ voluminous writings was translated into
English, his translators, John Hester, John Howell, John French, ‘W.D’, H.
Pinnell and Robert Turner being considered by Ferguson as among his few
English disciples. But Ferguson warns that ‘the student... will have to exercise
patience, considerable patience, before he can become the gratiWed possessor
of the little volumes. They are all extremely rare and some of them seem quite
unattainable. There are, indeed, not many books of the seventeenth century
so diYcult to lay hands on as the translations of Paracelsus’. (Ferguson,
Bibliographia Paracelsica pt. iii, p. 32.)
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PECQuET, Jean (1622–1674)
Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli
receptaculum, & ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa
lactea deteguntur. Dissertatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis
et chyli motu. Huic secundae editioni, quae emendata est, illustrata,
aucta, accessit De thoracicis lacteis dissertatio, in qua Io. Riolani
responsio ad eadem Experimenta nova anatomica refutatur; & inventis
recentibus canalis Virsungici demonstrantur usus; & lacteum ad
mammas à receptaculo iter indigitatur.
Paris: ex oYcina Cramoisinana, 1654.
4to: ã4 e˜ 4 A–2I4 (–2I4, blank), 135 of 136 leaves, pp. [16] 252 [2].
Errata and Privilège on 2I3. Typographic headpieces and woodcut
initials. Full page engraving on p. 21 and 5 smaller engravings on pp.
51, 60, 64 and 68.
197 x 152mm. Waterstains in fore margins, several gatherings lightly
browned,
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum. Worn and soiled.
Provenance: Ownership inscription on front pastedown ‘Petrus Vivien,
Mtr chirurgus Parisiis Insatus 1680. 20. Mart.’ and about 500 words
of marginal annotation apparently in his hand. Later signature on title,
undeciphered, begins ‘Ga...’.
Second, enlarged edition (Wrst Paris, Cramoisy 1651, reprinted at Harderwijk
in the same year). This second edition was reprinted at Amsterdam
in 1661 (re­issued in 1700). An English translation was published in
1653. Wellcome IV, p. 326; Krivatsy 8759; Heirs of Hippocrates 544.