The Earliest Printed Literature on Syphilis being Ten Tractates from the years 1495-1498 by Karl Sudhoff; Charles Singer - 1925

Birmingham: The Classics of Surgery Library., 1988. HEAVY. ix, 129pp, bw & col ills (inc 1 large folding) + publisher's 34pp booklet with references loosely inserted. Original full maroon leather decorated and titled in gilt, all edges gilt, 'marbled' endpapers, bookmark ribbon. As new. Handsome facsimile edition for the Classics of Surgery Library. Named leather label on front pastedown stating #103 of a limited edition of 7500 copies. Originally published in 1491. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine. Folio.

Freeport, Books for Libraries Press. 1968. (portrait, 6) 418 p. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth with red label spine and gilt title (In good condition.)

Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio.IX, [1], 128, [4]pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first (Venetian) edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae, a "bundle" of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection, which existed only in two manuscripts (handwritten copies), was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years. Johannes de Ketham, the German physician routinely associated with the Fasciculus, was neither the author nor even the original compiler but merely an owner of one of the manuscripts. The topics of the treatises cover a wide spectrum of medieval European medical knowledge and technique, including uroscopy, astrology, bloodletting, the treatment of wounds, plague, anatomical dissection, and women's health. The book is remarkable as the… Read More