







ALPINO'S RARE WORKS ON EGYPTIAN PLANTS AND MEDICINE FROM 1591-92.
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ALPINO, PROSPERO. De plantis Aegypti liber. In Qvo Non Pavci, Qvi Circa|| herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quo-rum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad vsum medicin(a)]e ad |modum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt ... ; Accesit etiam liber de Balsamo aliàs editus. Venetiis, apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, 1592.
4:o (about 231x168 mm.). (4), 1-57, (3), 61-80 (verso blank), (8) ll. Title with woodcut printer's device, 50 woodcuts in text, of which 39 fullpage. Some minor foxing. Signatures on title of Jo. Alberti Fabricii and Theobald Fettich. Small old annotation in upper margin of title. BOUND WITH:
ALPINO, PROSPERO. De Medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri Quatuor In Quibus Multa cum de vario mittendi sanguinis usu per venas, arterias, cucurbitulas, ac scarificationes nostris inusitatas, deq; inustionibus, & alijs chyrurgicis operationibus, tum de quamplurimis medicamentis apud Aegyptios frequentioribus, elucescunt. Venetiis, apud franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, 1591.
4:o (about 231x168 mm.). (11, lacks Errata leaf signed c1), 1-150 (verso blank), (25) ll. Title with woodcut printer's device, 7 woodcuts in text of which 2 fullpage. Some light browning and foxing. Some old marginal annotations, old annotations on title.
Contemporary limp vellum, warped boards, upper board with gilt monogram JHS under a noble crown, new straps, spine with manuscript title.
Ref: De Plantis... Edit 16, CNCE 1244. Wellcome I, 233. Nissen: BBI 20. Pritzel 111.
De Medicina...:Edit 16, CNCE 1243; Garrison-Morton 6468; Heirs of Hippocrates 240 (1646 edn.); Osler 1796; Waller 12509; Wellcome 232.
Prosper Alpini (1553-1617), Italian physician and botanist. De plantis... is the first edition of the earliest treatise on the native Egyptian flora, the author's most important scientific work. This work is today mostly known for the first European illustration of the coffee plant (f. 25 verso).
De medicina... is an important work on the practice of medicine in Egypt, one of the earliest studies in Europe of non-Western medicine.
Provenance Theobaldus Fettich (first half of 16th century), author of some works on medicine;
Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736), German classical scholar;
Olle Wallin (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall. His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.
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