Otho von Brunfels – Theses – Rare work of medicine- Contemporary binding – 1532

(GENEESKUNDE; FARMACOLOGIE; EERSTE DRUKKEN; Prachtige band) Otho Von BRUNFELS (1488-1534)Theses seu communes loci, totius rei Medicae. Item. De usu pharmacorum, deq artificio suppressam aluum ciendi, Liber. Per Othonem Brunfelsium. Argentorati excudebat Georgius Ulricher Andlanus, 1532.§ 8vo (150x100); [10], 232 leaves. Signature: []10, a-z8, A-F8. Printer’s mark on title page and last page (2 different), woodcut initials. Ownership signatures on title page: (erased), dated 1595, Matheus Letellier Doctor Medicus Monspeliardis 1739, stempel (Durand), repeated; on pastedown printed label M. Durand, méd. à Chartres.. Intriguing contemporary blind-tooled calf, ties missing, top and foot of spine and top of front cover skillfully restored, fragment of an ancient manuscript inside binding., fine and well preserved copy in a fascinating binding.FIRST EDITION, significantly rare. “Brunfels, a German botanist, became a Carthusian monk in his early twenties, a short time after completing his education at Mainz. He abandoned the monastery in 1521 when he became a convert to the Protestant faith and spent several years at various towns in southwest Germany as an evangelical minister and theological writer. Brunfels returned to Strasbourg in 1524 where he established a school and directed his interests to the study of botany and medicine. He is most often remembered for... lees verder bij Catawiki