Medical. [Gabelkover (Oswald)], The Boock of Physicke (sic),...

Hammer

£450

Medical. [Gabelkover (Oswald)], The Boock of Physicke (sic), [...] Most of them selected, and approved remedyes (sic), for all corporall (sic) diseases, and sicknesses [...], first English edition of Nützlich artzneybuch für alle des menschlichen leibes anliegen und gebrechen, Dorte (i.e. Dordrecht): Imprinted by Isaack Caen, 1599, signatures [π1] (i.e. title-page), F1, Y2 & [Y5] supplied in facsimile, lacking the index, otherwise textually complete, however, the last four leaves are tattier than the rest of the text block, with some loss of letters, the final leaf [Kk5] repaired and with more developed losses, the remaining original text block, though perfectly legible, is affected by varying levels of brown toning, former staining and former damp, additionally signatures [Z6] has two burnt holes, one just touching text and both off-setting on the corresponding leaf, and [Bb6] with a tatty, chipped fore-margin, contemporary English minor and infrequent manuscript notation, later 20th c pastiche calf, rubbed and worn, the upper-cover split and just holding, folio (27.5 x 20cm), [NLM/Durling 1737; Wellcome I, 2488; STC 11513]