KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470)

Лот 133
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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Лот 133 | KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470)
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£ 15 000 – 20 000
KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470)
Fasciculus medicine. – PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO. Consilium pro peste evitanda. - MUNDINUS. Anatomia. - RHASIS. De aegritudinibus puerorum. Venice: Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1513.
Early edition of ‘the first printed medical book to have anatomical illustrations’ (Norman). Ketham may be Johannes von Kircheim, 15th-century professor of medicine at Vienna, and these the notes for his lectures on surgery, prognosis, obstetrics, plague, diagnostics, and more. ‘All the different editions of this work are of great importance because of the woodcuts they contain.’ (Choulant-Frank). Here it is joined by tracts on plague, Mundinus’ work on anatomy and a work on paediatrics by the Persian physician Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī, as in the previous 1500/1 edition.

First published in 1491, this fifth Latin edition contains the woodcuts of the 1500 edition, eight of which were first used in 1493, themselves copied from the 1491 blocks. The large plates illustrate: a1r a lecturer; a1v a Uroscopist; a3v a bloodletting manikin; a6v a zodiacal manikin; b1r a woman sitting partly dissected; b5r a figure of a man noting all diseases; c2r a figure showing circulation; c4v a figure of a man in bed infected with plague attended by nurses and doctors; d2v a lecture demonstrating dissection. Choulant-Frank 121; Sander 3751; Essling 591; Waller 5175; Wellcome 3545. Cf. Garrison-Morton 363 and 363.1; cf. PMM 36; cf. Norman 1211.

Folio (315 x 212mm). 10 full-page woodcuts and a large woodcut table illustrating urinoscopy on A2r, ornamental woodcut initials from several sets (a few repairs in first leaf with a small loss to images, outer bifolium of most quires reinforced at hinge, occasional small stain or light spotting, a few marginal repairs, small repaired wormhole effecting a few letters only, small marginal ink hole). 19th-century vellum, lettered on spine (lightly darkened). Provenance: a few early annotations – Albert John Chalmers (British colonial physician and pioneer in tropical medicine research, 1870-1920; bookplate and plate recording bequest from Mrs Chalmers in the year of his death to:) – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamp on flyleaf).
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