Fabricius Hildanus, Guilhelmus (Wilhelm Fabry) | An early seventeenth-century medical Sammelband

Fabricius Hildanus, Guilhelmus (Wilhelm Fabry)

New Feldt Artzny Buch von Kranckheiten und schäden, so in Kriegen den Wundartzten gemeinlich fürfallen. … Basel, Ludwig König 1615. Second edition. Title-page printed in red and black, 21 woodcut illustrations (17 full-page), mostly of surgical instruments. Garrison-Morton 2142; NLM/Krivatsy 3857; VD17 23:239593U. [bound with:]  

De combustionibus, quae oleo et aqua fervida, ferro candente, pulvere tormentario, fulmine, & quavis alia materia ignita fiunt libellus. Basel: Ludwig König , 1607. First edition. Woodcut portrait of Fabricius on )(7, 6 woodcut illustrations (3 full-page). Garrison-Morton 2245; NLM/Krivatsy 3850; VD17 23:279196H. The first treatise written about the treatment of burns. [bound with:] 

De Vulnere quodam gravissimo & periculoso, ictu sclopeti inflicto. Observatio et curatio singularis. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for the heirs of Johann Theodor de Bry, 1614. First edition. Engraved title vignette, 10 woodcut illustrations (2 full-page), occasional contemporary marginalia. Norman 753; NLM/Krivatsy 3858; VD17 12:193224F. Fabry's treatise on gunshot wounds, featuring a woodcut of a bullet extractor, one of the many surgical instruments he invented. [bound with:]

De dysenteria hoc est, cruento alvi fluore liber unus. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for the heirs of Johann Theodor de Bry, 1616. First Latin edition. Engraved title vignette, Engraved portrait of Fabricus on title-page verso, 3 woodcut illustrations (one full-page). NLM/ Krivatsy 3852; VD17 23:293027V

Together 4 works in one volume, 8vo (155 x 100 mm). Woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, first three works with terminal blanks present; first work lacking three leaves of preliminary text and with two ink stamps on title-page verso, 5 leaves of first work with small tears at outside margin not affecting text, occasional light browning or foxing throughout due to intrinsic vice of the paper. Eighteenth-century stiff vellum with blind-tooled fillets on covers, flat spine with faded ink title, blue edges, plain endpapers; joints starting to crack at head and tail but still secure, lightly soiled, two or three tiny wormholes to covers, creases to spine and a tiny closed tear at tail, early repairs to hinges.

A very nice collection of significant works by “the father of German surgery.” Norman notes that “although he did not reject traditional humoral doctrine, Fabry was ahead of his time in his attempts to explain disease and injury in terms of localized physical causes.”

PROVENANCE:

Dr. Kohlrausch (bookplate)