MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
Liber responsorum et consultationum medicinalium. Nunc primùm á Michaele Columbo collectus & in lucem editus.
Basel, Conrad Valdkirch, 1588. With a woodcut arabesque tailpiece and decorated initials, a headpiece and other decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments.
With: VALLERIOLE, François. Observationum medicinalium lib. VI. Denuo editi, & emendatiores quàm antea in lucem emissi: in quibus multorum gravissimorum morborum historiae, eorundem causae, syntomata atque eventus, tum etiam curationes miro, utili & compendioso ordine describuntur.
Lyon, Antoine Blanc [printed in Geneva?], 1588. With Blancs woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments.
8vo. 17th-century overlapping vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine. [24], 502, [16]; [24], 524, [32] pp.
€ 1,750
Ad 1: Second edition of an extensive collection of Mercurialiss Consultationes or Consilia: records of advice given to individual patients, including a number of cases relating to mental conditions, especially melancholy, first published in 1587. Mercuriales student Michael Columbus edited these and a second volume (1589), while Hieronymus Forliviensis followed by Guilielmus Athenius edited two further volumes 3 and 4 (1597-1604).
Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), in Latin Hieronymus Mercurialis, was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De arte gymnastica. He was called to occupy the chair of practical medicine in Padua in 1569. During this time, he translated the works of Hippocrates, and, armed with this knowledge, wrote De morbis cutaneis (1572), considered the first scientific tract on skin diseases, followed by other works, such as De morbis muliebribus (1582), De morbis puerorum (1583) and De oculorum et aurium affectibus. He remained in Padua until 1587, when he began teaching at the University of Bologna. In 1593, he was called by Ferdinando de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Pisa.
Ad 2: One of the late 16th-century editions of medical observations made by the French professor of medicine at Turin, François Valleriole (1504-1580), in Latin Franciscus Valleriola. The first edition had been the published in Lyon by A. Gryphius in 1573.
With bookplate of the library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings (Kings County = Brooklyn, N.Y.), established in 1822, on paste-down and their library stamp on the title page of ad 1. Also with the library stamp of G.H. Hunt, MD, Brooklyn on the first endleaf. Erased library stamp and two erased owners inscriptions on the title page of ad 2. Title-page slightly soiled with a very small tear in the head margin, otherwise in good condition. Ad 1: Durling 3108; Neuburger-Pagel I, 604; Proksch I, 111; USTC 604057; VD16, M4815. Ad 2: Durling 4504; Hirsch, VI, 61; Power & Thompson 83; USTC 142571 & 451176; cf. Baudrier, VIII, p. 360 (1573 ed.).
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