FEHR, JOH. MICHAEL
Hiera picra, vel de absinthio analecta. (Breslau), J. E. Hahn per J. Trescher a Leipzig, 1667. (with, of the same Aut.:) Anchora sacra, vel Scorzoneram ad normam & formam Academiae Curiosorum elaborata. Accessit Schediasma curiosum de Unicorno fossili .. Jena, J. J. Bauhofer per J. Trescher in Breslau, s.d. (1666). (with:) GRABA, J.A - Elaphographia (graece) sive cervi descriptio physico-medico-chymica ...
8vo (cm 15.5), 3 works bound together in contemporary vellum, a genuine copy (some browning for the quality of the paper). I : Large folding printed table of dedication, 3 engr. plates, 1 fold. woodcut, pp. (16), 175, 4). II: Engraved front., and 4 engr. plates at end, pp. (16), 204, (12). III : Pp. 312, (40, whose 2 blks). A fine Sammelband with 3 rare medico-botanical and -zoological works in first editions: I. With 3 engr. plates, folding woodcut and folding address to the Academia Leopoldina (often lacking). Important monograph on the medical and pharmaceutical uses of absinthe. This appears to be the first work devoted exclusively to the subject. The author was founder and president of the German Academy of Sciences. VD 17 39:117657M; Krivatsy 3973 (only 1 pl.); Hirsch-H. II, 494; not in Nissen and Stafleu-C. - II. With engr. allegorical frontispiece and 4 engr. plates. Monograph on salsify, with an appendix about the medical properties of "fossil unicorn". VD 17 1:092169H; Krivatsy 3972; Pritzel 2856; Wellcome III, 14. - III. "In three sections, the first treating of the Deer in general, the second of the Deer in a theological aspect, and the third and longest section giving recipes for the use of every part of the Deer's body in medicine" (Schwerdt, but 2nd edn., 1668). VD 17 39:117660Q; Krivatsy 4915; Lindner 11.0755.01; Wellcome III, 143.
Jena, J. Nisius for J. Trescher in Breslau, 1667
€ 2.800,00
