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GRÜNPECK, JOSEPH. 1473-1532. Tractatus de pestilentiali Scorra sive mala de Franzos Originem. [Leipzig: Gregorius Böttiger, after October 18, 1496.]

BOLOGNINI, ANGELO. FL. 1517. Libellus de cura ulcerum exteriorum. Venice: Giovanni Taccuino, April 24, 1506.

THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. BENIVIENI, ANTONIO. 1443-1502. De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1507.

GALEN. C. 129-200 C.E. De affectorum locorum notitia, libri sex, Guilielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete. Paris: Henri Estienne, n.d. [1513].

GALEN. C. 129-200 C.E. De affectorum locorum notitia, libri sex, Guilielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1520.

GALEN. C. 129-200 C.E. Pergameni, de affectorum locorum notitialibri sex. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1543.

RARE 16TH CENTURY TREATISE ON REMEDIES. VARIGNANA, GUGLIELMO DA. 1270-1339. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis... [Pavia:] Bernardinus de Garaldis, 1519.

ALDINE EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST ROMAN MEDICAL WORKS CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50 C.E. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelii Celsi medicinae libri VIII ... Quinti Sereni liber de medicina. Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1528.

FRACASTORO, GIROLAMO. 1478-1553. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. [Verona: Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, August 1530.]

FRACASTORO, GIROLAMO. 1478-1553. De sympathia et antipathia rerum liber unus. De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione libri iii. Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1546.

MASSA, NICCOLO. 1489-1569. Liber de morbo Gallico. Venice: Francisco Bindoni & Mapheo Pisani, July 14, 1532.

MANARDO, GIOVANNI. 1462-1536. Epistolarum medicinalium libri duodeviginti. Basel: [Johann Bebel], 1535.

ARCOLANI, GIOVANNI. D. 1484. Commentaria in nonum librum Rasis ad regem Almansorem.... Venice: heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1542.

HIPPOKRATES - GALEN Hippokratous Koou iatrike. . Galenou iatrike techne. / Hippocratis Coi medici vetustissimi . Lib[ri] . Postremo Galeni ars medicinalis, Graecè & Latinè. Basel: Heinrich Petri August, 1543.

GABUCCINI, GIROLAMO. FL. 1542-1569. De Lumbricis aluum occupantibus, ac de ratione curandi eos, qui ab illis infestantur commentaries. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1547.

TRALLIANUS ON SMALLPOX, EDITIO PRINCEPS TRALLIANUS, ALEXANDER. C. 525-C. 605. Alexander Tralliani Medici Lib. XII. Rhazae de Pestilentia Libellus ex Syrorum Lingua in Graecam Translatus. Jacobi Goupyli in Eosdem Castigationes. Ex Bibliotheca Regia. Paris: Rob. Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1548.

FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON SYPHILIS, THE HASKELL F. NORMAN COPY. HÉRY, THIERRY DE. C. 1500-1559. La methode curatoire de la maladie vénérienne. Paris: Matthieu David et Arnoul l'Angelier, 1552.

FERNEL, JEAN FRANÇOIS. 1497-1558. Medicina. Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1554.

PARACELSUS, PHILIPPUS, THEOPHASTUS BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM. 1493-1541. La grande, vraye, et parfaicte chirurgie, du ... Philippe Aureole Theophraste Paracelse, comprinse en deux livres.... Anvers: Willem Silvius, 1567.

POSSIBLE PIRATED EDITION OF LANFRANCHI'S WORK LANFRANCHI, GUIDO, OF MILAN. 1250-1306. Klein Wundartznei. Von allerhand Bunde... Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolph, 1569.

PARACELSUS, PHILIPPUS, THEOPHRASTUS BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM. 1493-1541. Chirurgia minor quam alias Bertheoneam intitulavit. Basel: Petrus Perna, [1569-1570].

FIORAVANTI ON SURGERY, RARE FIRST EDITION FIORAVANTI, LEONARDO. 1518-1588. La Cirugia....distinta in tre libri. Venice: Melchoir Sessa's heirs, 1570.

VIGO, GIOVANNI DA. 1450-1525. The most excellent workes of chirurgerie, made and set foorthe by maister John Vigon. London: Thomas East and Henry Middleton, 1571.

THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS, HIERONYMUS. 1530-1606. De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus. Venice: Paolo & Antonio Meietti, 1572.

A RARE RENAISSANCE SURGICAL MANUAL DALÉCHAMPS, JACQUES. 1513-1588. Chirurgie françoise, avec plusieurs figures des instrumens nécessaires pour l'opération manuelle. Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1573.

PARE, AMBROISÉ. c.1510-1590. Les oeuvres...avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres. Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1575.

MERCURIALI'S TREATISE ON THE PLAGUE MERCURIALIS, HIERONYMUS. 1530-1606. De peste in universum, praesertim ver de Veneta & Patavina. Item de morbis cutaneis & omnibus humani corporis excrementi. Basel: [preface dated 1577].

FIRST EDITION OF DODOENS' MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS DODOENS, REMBERT. 1517-1585. Medicinalium Observationum Exampla rara, recognita & aucta. Cologne: M. Cholinus, 1581.

CROCE, GIOVANNI ANDREA DELLA. 1514-1575. Cirurgia universale e perfetta di tutte le parti pertinenti all'ottimo Chirurgo. Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1583.

UNAUTHORIZED PRINTING OF THE LECTURES OF FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, HIERONYMUS. C.1533-1619. -- BEYER, JOHANNES HARTMANN, editor. 1563-1625. Pentateuchos Cheirurgicum... Frankfurt: Zacharias Palthenius, 1592.

FALLOPIUS, GABRIEL. 1523-1562. Opera Omnia, in unum congesta, & in medicinae studiosorum gratiam excusa.... Frankfurt: Andreas Wechelus, C. Marnius & J. Aubrius, 1600-1606.

MERCURIALIS, HIERONYMUS. 1530-1606. De arte gymnastica libri sex. Venice: Giunta, 1601.

THE NORMAN COPY OF PLATTER'S PRAXEOS. PLATTER, FELIX. 1536-1614. Praxeos seu de cognoscendis, praedicendis, praecavendis.... Basel: Conrad Waldkirch, 1608 and 1603.

PLATTER, FELIX. 1536-1614. Observationum in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori & animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres. Basel: L. König, 1614.

RARE EARLY VERNACULAR MONOGRAPH ON THE TREATMENT OF SMALLPOX IN CHILDREN CHANVEL, CLAUDE. Le Chasse-Verole des Petits Enfans. Lyon: Barthelmy Vincent, 1610.

RARE RENAISSANCE MEDICAL FIELD MANUAL. FABRY VON HILDEN, WILHELM (FABRICUS HILDANUS). 1560-1624. New Feldt Arztny Buch von Kranckheiten und Schäden, so in Kriegen den Wundartzten gemeinlich fürfallen. Basel: L. König, 1615.

FIRST COLLECTED WRITINGS ON SCURVY SENNERT, DANIEL. 1572-1637. De Scorbuto Tractatus. Wittenberg: Zachary Schurer, 1624.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF BRUELE'S PRAXIS MEDICINAE. BRUELE, GUALTHERUS. Fl. 1580s. Praxis Medicinae, or, The Physicians Practice. London: John Norton for William Sheares, 1632.

SEVERINO, MARCO AURELIO. 1580-1656. De recondita abscessuum natura. Naples: Ottavo Beltrano, 1632.

AUGMENTED SECOND EDITION OF SEVERINO'S LANDMARK WORK ON ABCESSES AND TUMORS SEVERINO, MARCO AURELIO. 1580-1656. De recondita abscessuum natura. Frankfurt: Kaspar Rötel for Johannes Beyer, 1643.

CLOWES, WILLIAM. C. 1544-1601. A Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Observations, for all those that are burdened with the flame of Gun-powder, &c.... London: Printed by M. Dawson, 1637.

WOODALL, JOHN. 1556-1643. The Surgeon's Mate or Military and Domestique Surgery. London: Rob[ert] Young for Nicholas Bourne, 1639.

TULP, NICOLAES. 1593-1674. Observationum medicarum libri tres. Amsterdam: Lodewijk Elzevir, 1641.

17TH CENTURY ITALIAN MANUSCRIPT ABOUT WOUNDS AND GUNSHOT WOUNDS [MANUSCRIPT – WOUNDS AND GUNSHOT WOUNDS]. Spine title: "Ferrite Del Genga" ["Wounds of the Genga[?]"]. [Italy?, c. 17th-century?].

RARE HERBAL. BORDER, DANIEL. Polypharmakos kai chymistes, or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true vse of all manner of plants and minerals in which is explained the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. London: Printed by B. Alsop, 1651.

EXPANDED EDITION OF THE EARLIEST SYSTEMATIC WORK ON SURGERY BY AN ENGLISHMAN LOWE, PETER. C.1550-1610. A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgery. London: R. Hodgkinsonne, 1654.

HALL, JOHN. 1575-1635. Select Observations on English Bodies... Put into English for Common Benefit by James Cooke. London: John Sherley, 1657.

RIOLAN ON BLOOD CIRCULATION RIOLAN, JEAN. 1577-1657. A Sure Guide, or the Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery.... London: Peter Cole, 1657.

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