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154 x 95mm. Fore margin of title torn away and restored without loss;
fore margin of E3 defective, apparently an original paper Xaw, with
loss of several letters; headlines cropped; paper slightly discoloured.
Binding: Later paper covered boards.
First edition, containing the second edition of Malpighi, De pulmonibus
observatio, Bologna 1661. Another edition was published at Leiden in
1672. Frati 11; Krivatsy 818; LeFanu, Notable Medical Books p. 73.
Bartholin’s work containing Malpighi’s discovery of the capillaries in the lungs.
This copy of this small pamphlet has been extracted from a bound volume of
pamphlets. It could have been in a volume assembled by the publisher, like the
one described above, or one put together by a contemporary or later owner,
but now lacks any evidence of its original context or provenance.
The Wrst edition is Norman, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine 30.
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BASILIuS VALENTINuS
Letztes testament... Darinnen die Geheime Bücher vom Grossen
Stein der uralten Weisen, und andern verbergenen Geheimnüssen
der Natur. Auß dem Original, so zu ErVurt zu dem hohen Alter,
unter einem Marmorsteinen TäZein gefunden, nachgeschrieben: und
nummehr auV vielfältiges begehren, den Wliis doctrinae zu gutem,
neben angehengten XII. Schlusseln.
Strasbourg: in verlägung Caspari Dietzels, 1651.
8vo: )( 8 A–T 8 u 4 (blank u4), 164 leaves, pp. xvi 248 a–q [2] 252–264
[4] aa–tt, 256–271, [2] (last 2 pages blank). Sectional titlepages on H2,
L1, R6 and S6; woodcut printer’s device on main title and another on
the sectional titles on L1 and R6; a woodcut of a still on S6; an etched
illustration of a distillation Xask on Q7.
[part ii:]
Von dem grossen Stein der Uhralten, daran so viel tausend Meister
anfangs der Welt hero gemacht haben: Neben angehängten Tractätlein,
derer Inhalt nach der Vorrede zu Wnden.
Strasbourg: in verlägung Caspari Dietzels, 1651.
8vo: a–l8 , 84 leaves, pp. [8] 156 [4], 18 engraved illustrations (1 on title
and 16 in the text).
157 x 90mm. Round wormholes through the text of the Wrst few
gatherings; paper browned, quite heavily in some gatherings.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards with yapp edges. Lower joint
torn at the head, worm holes in upper joint.
Provenance: Twentieth­century bookplate with initials ‘W.M.’.
Second Dietzel edition (Wrst 1645 without the second part; the Letztes
testament was Wrst printed in 1626 and Von dem grossen Stein in
1599). The two parts are generally catalogued separately (and have
been broken up by bookdealers in the past, as is clear from an E. P.