ac ejusdem de venenis ac eorundem alexipharmacis opusculum.
Francofurti Sumptibus Johannes Beyeri. M.DC.XL. [1641.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 65mm (4¼ x 2½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
The engraved titlepage of a herbal by Jean Pre´vost (1585-1631), head of the Botanical Gardens in Padua, the epicentre of renaissance medicine and anti-clerical sentiment. It was an influential work: the English edition of 1670, 'Medicaments for the poor', was intended to break the monopoly of the apothecaries who used Latin to obscure their knowledge.
[Ref: 42369] £160.00
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 65mm (4¼ x 2½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
The engraved titlepage of a herbal by Jean Pre´vost (1585-1631), head of the Botanical Gardens in Padua, the epicentre of renaissance medicine and anti-clerical sentiment. It was an influential work: the English edition of 1670, 'Medicaments for the poor', was intended to break the monopoly of the apothecaries who used Latin to obscure their knowledge.
[Ref: 42369] £160.00