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ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445–1505), and others

Lot 130
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 130 | ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445–1505), and others
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ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445–1505), and others
A sammelband of nine rare medical and scientific works, printed in Italy in the early 16th-century.
Comprising:
ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445–1505). Liber anathomie corporis humani et singulorum memborum illius. Venice: Ottaviano Scotto, 1502. 198 leaves including title. ff. [2] 2-134, 121-184, 20, 16 (folio numbers 121-134 are used twice; f. 69 mis-foliated as ‘89’). Occasional manuscript marginal annotations. [NLM/Durling 4798; Adams Z-137; Waller 10470]. An important contribution on anatomical knowledge during the Renaissiance by eminent Veronese physician Gabriele de Zerbis, with detailed descriptions of the human body, including its organs and individual limbs.

[and:] – De cautelis medicorum tractatulus (edited by Cesare Torti of Asculana). [no place, c. 1500]. 6 leaves, early manuscript note in ink on title. [not in NLM/Durling, Adams or Waller; see Tait, Richard. The Editions of Gabriele Zerbi's De cautelis medicorum and their Influence (Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 2020-01, Vol.83 (1), p.327-336)]. Zerbis’s work De cautelis medicorum (‘Precautions for Doctors’) was first published in 1495 and describes the characteristics of good and bad professional conduct and provides advice on how to achieve professional success in medical practice.

[and:] VITTORIO, Benedetto (1481-1561). Opus theorice latitudinum medicine ad libros Tegni Galleni. Bologna: Benedict Hector, 1516. 30 leaves. [1] 28, [1]. Woodcut tables in text [NLM/Durling 4666].

[and:] CARENZIO, Ludovico (1463-1539). Questio de tribus doctrinis ordinariis universali secundimum Galeni sententiam. Venice: the heirs of Ottaviano Scotto, 1517. 12 leaves. [NLM/Durling 860; Edit16 CNCE 9722].

[and:] – Questio secunda de doctrinis: que est de duabus doctrinis. s. de resolutiva et compositiva in particulari secundum Aristotelis Galenique sententias. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 1519. 33 leaves. [Edit16 CNCE 9723; not in NLM/Durling].

[and:] OTTATO, Cesare (fl. 1501-1517). Opus tripartitum de crisi, de diebus criticis: et de causis criticorum. Venice: the heirs of Ottaviano Scotto, 1517. 12 leaves, woodcut diagrams in text. [NLM/Durling 3425; Edit16 CNCE 33045].

[and:] NIFO, Agostino (1473-c. 1545?). De diebus criticis seu decretoriis aureus liber. Venice: heirs of Ottaviano Scotto, 1519. 10 leaves, woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut initials, printer's device at the end, modern wrappers, an early inscription listing the signs of the zodiac below the printer's device. [Wellcome I, 4550; Edit16 CNCE 47102].

[and:] GRISOGONO, Federico (1472-1538). De modo collegiandi, pronosticandi, et curandi febres: necnon de humana felicitate: ac denique de fluxu et refluxu maris: lucubrationes nuperime in lucem edite. Venice: Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio & fratelli, 1528. 28 leaves, ff. 27, [1]. Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, woodcut diagrams, last leaf with large woodcut volvelle with three movable parts (slight creasing at edges). [NLM/Durling 2179; Tomash & Williams C85; Edit16 21833; Sander 1946; Thorndike, History of magic, 5:314-316; USTC 834694]. An important and rare work on astrology as applied to medicine, with a 3-part volvelle for calculating horoscopes.

[and:] GROSSETESTE, Robert (c. 1170-1273, bishop of Lincoln). Ruberti Linconiensis … Opuscula dignissima nunc primum in lucem edita et accuratissime emendata: De artibus liberalibus. De generatione sonorum. De calore solis. De generatione stellarum. De coloribus. De statu causarum. De veritate propositionis. De unica forma omnium. De intelligentijs. De veritate. De impressionibus elementorum. De motu corporali et luce. De finitate motus et temporis. De angulis et figuris. De natura locorum. De inchoatione formarum. Quod homo sit minor mumdus. De motu supercelestium. De differentijs localibus. Venice: G. Arrivabenus for the heirs of Ottaviano Scotto, 1514. 14 leaves (dampstained, ff. 7-13 damaged or torn at head with loss of part of some headlines and repaired with paper at head at verso, final leaf (f. 14) torn with loss at head into first six lines and laid down). [Edit16 CNCE 21861; not in Adams].

Together 9 works bound in one volume, quarto (304 x 210mm). Mid-twentieth-century half russia, marbled boards, spine in compartments, leather spine label titled ‘ANATOMIA’ (covers detached, spine slightly worn with loss at head and foot). Provenance: Joannes Schroter[?] (early ink inscription and signature in German on title of first work) – Royal Society of Medicine (circular inkstamp to titles [Medical & Chirurgical Society]).
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Medicine & science, Books and manuscripts, Printed books
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