duo libri (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. 363 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. Guter Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and catalognumber on spine. Good condition, some traces of use. div1015 la Gewicht in Gramm: 750.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Doni, Agostino. De natura hominis libri duo. Basel, Froben, 1581. Small 4to. 121 [misnumb. 123]p + 1 blank leaf. Initials. Printer's device on title. Limp vellum. First edition of what is considered one of most original works on natural philosophy, the only published book by Agostino Doni (c1550-c1590), who describes himself as physician and philosopher from Cosenza (in Calabria); he is thought to have studied philosophy at Padua or Ferrara. In the first part of his part of his work Doni totally rejects the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen; in the definitive second part he confines his investigation of human nature to those substances which can be perceived by the senses; the core of his new philosophy ('sunt species hominis') defines a human being as a single living body able to perform thoughts and actions. The lengthy dedication is to Stephen Bathory, King of Poland, protector of Italian radical freethinkers at his court at Cracow. The book was published in Basel, known for religious tolerance and liberty of spirit, where the author had arrived in 1579 as a refugee from the Italian inquisition, branded a heretic. He was supported by Basil Amerbach, rector of the university and by the physician Theodor Zwinger who introduced him to the printer Froben. Doni was a critic of Bernardino Telesio (1509-88), his celebrated fellow Calabrian, whose own 'De rerum natura' was published in 1586; both were natives of Cosenza. Doni's iatrochemical system was denigrated by Francis Bacon as 'pastoral philosophy'. Ironically Bacon considered him a pupil of Telesio (cf De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum IV,3). Doni later travelled to Geneva and Cracow to promote Italian naturalist thinking. Cf: Luigi de Franco, L' eretico Agostinio Doni medico e filosofo consentino del 500 ( Cosenza 1973) & Delio Cantimori, Gli eretici italiani del cincecento. (1939). A fresh copy. Adams D-839. Durling 1196.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. COCCHI, Antonio (editor).Graecorum chirurgici libri. Sorani unus de fracturarum signis. Oribasii duo, de fractis et de luxatis, e collectione Nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino descripti, conversi atque editi Florence, 1754.Folio. xix + l73p. Roman, Greek & italic letter. Title in red & black. With 1 full-page engraving. Near-contemporary half sheep, gilt. First edition of two Greek classics on fractures and dislocations. The treatise on skeletal anatomy by Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century AD) represents the only surviving work by him and appears here for the first time in a modern edition; the studies by the medical encyclopaedist Oribasios (4th century AD) were compiled from earlier sources. The editor , Antonio Cocchi, a distinguished Italian physician, philologist and antiquarian, professor of anatomy at Florence, worked from a Greek codex in the Medici Library. The engraved plate shows facsimiles of 3 specimens from the Greek codex used by the editor. With contemporary engraved heraldic bookplate of the physician Corn. Henr. A. Roy. Sarton I, p 283. Wellcome II, p 363.