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Medicina practica, sive Methodus cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectuum by [16TH-CENTURY MEDICINE] -- [CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo (1523-1589)]

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Title
Medicina practica, sive Methodus cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectuum
Author
[16TH-CENTURY MEDICINE] -- [CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo (1523-1589)]
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Venice: apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1598. First Venice Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio (310 x 210mm). [2],175pp., [1], 301pp. [2], 12pp., 175pp., [1]. Contemporary dark brown goatskin, (title and preliminaries lacking and supplied in early manuscript with illustrated printer’s device, some browning and staining least severe after page 9). 17th-century inscriptions on rear endpaper for Index Capitum, a medical student’s description of the various parts. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on front endpaper. Sold as is. First Venice Edition of Capivaccio’s philosophical ‘practica’ in Galenic teachings, a pillar for medical students of the Renaissance. First edition printed in Frankfurt in 1594 under the title “Practica Medicina.” Capivaccio’s lectures were posthumously edited by Johann Hartmann Beyer. This is the first Venice edition of these lectures on the healing sciences by one of the leading Italian medical practitioners of his time is edited by Giovanni Bernardo Sessa. Capivaccio died at Padua in 1589, where he had taught at the university for 27 years. He was a specialist in venereal diseases for which he had developed certain successful cures, guarding his secrets jealously from colleagues. Capivaccio applied a philosophical approach to his practica, so much so that it is doubtful if it was ever much used as a vade mecum. By writing at such great lengths, it is clear Capivaccio wished to educate students rather than give them a handbook. Apart from the wish to restore Galenic teachings and to educate students, one motive for Capivaccio’s practica may have been to bolster the claims of university doctors over the central providers of medical expertise in the Renaissance, namely, priests, wise-women, magicians, herbalists and travelling empirics. This work important to the reform of the practice of medicine and to the wider concept of dogmatism or rationalism in medicine, the Renaissance physician could use Capivaccio’s work to locate the causes of diseases as well as its signs. NLM/Durling 816.
Ruth Asawa / Arthur Secunda (Exhibition Brochure)

Ruth Asawa / Arthur Secunda (Exhibition Brochure) by ASAWA, Ruth and Arthur Secunda

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Ruth Asawa / Arthur Secunda (Exhibition Brochure)
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ASAWA, Ruth and Arthur Secunda
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Harper's Books (United States)
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Small bump to foot of spine, with minor toning to margins of front panel; a near fine copy of a scarce document.
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Los Angeles: Ankrum Gallery, 1962. Small bump to foot of spine, with minor toning to margins of front panel; a near fine copy of a scarce document.. Bifolium brochure from a key exhibition in Ruth Asawa's career; her first show in Los Angeles, which gained praise in the inaugural issue of Artforum—"[Asawa's is] surely among the most original and satisfying new sculpture to have arisen in the western United States." Folded sheet of laid paper (9.75 x 6.5 inches), with loose leaf that reproduces b&w photos of two of her wire sculptures, which then-belonged to Philip Johnson and Norman Rockefeller. The front panel of the brochure is illustrated by a striking collage of her Doors and Sculpture. The Ankrum Gallery exhibition also featured work from Asawa's friend Arthur Secunda, with a color reproduction of one of his painting printed to the brochure's interior (Night Fiesta).
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A DISCOURSE, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH, AND DELIVERED AT THE FUNERAL, OF MRS. MARY CLAP, RELICT OF THE LATE REV. PRESIDENT CLAP. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 23D, 1769. IN THE LXVIth YEAR OF HER AGE by Whittelsey, Chauncey

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A DISCOURSE, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH, AND DELIVERED AT THE FUNERAL, OF MRS. MARY CLAP, RELICT OF THE LATE REV. PRESIDENT CLAP. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 23D, 1769. IN THE LXVIth YEAR OF HER AGE
Author
Whittelsey, Chauncey
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
New-Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1769. 24pp. Stitched into modern marbled wrappers. Toned with a little foxing. Else Very Good. With contemporary ownership signature of "Anne Williams her Book". Whittelsey was Pastor of the First Church in New Haven. Mary Clap was the widow of the President of Yale College, Thomas Clap. Reverend Whittelsey describes her excellent character; a long footnote chronicles her ancestry. Evans 11530. Trumbull 1650. Sabin 103787. ESTC W38065 [7 locations as of May 2018].

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