MISCELLANY - Jean François FERNEL (1497-1558). Consiliorum medicinalium liber. Exeius adversariis quadringentarum consultationum selectus. Nunc denuo fidelus & accuratius quam antea editus, & a quam plurimis mendis, quibus antea scatebat, repurgatus. Cum indice accurato. Frankfurt: "Apud Joannem Wechelum," 1585. 8vo (155 x 92mm). (Lightly browned and spotted.) [?]Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with 5 raised bands and morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers. Adams F-250; Durling 1475. With 9 other books including Oswald Gabelkouer's [The Boock of Physicke] (Dordecht, 1599, folio, with title and several other leaves supplied in crude modern facsimile, later reverse calf), Hieronymous Fabricus's De integumentis animalium libellus (Königsberg, 1642, 8vo, browned and stained, modern limp vellum) and Nicholas Culpeper's Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, the London Dispensatory (London, 1679, 8vo, contemporary calf) and Peter M. Roget's A Case of Recovery from the Effects of Arsenic ... Read May 7, 1811 ([?]London, [n.d.], 8vo, offprint, modern wrappers); together with 3 framed items of early 19th-century theatrical ephemera, one with a contemporary autograph inscription on the verso. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020). The lot sold not subject to return. (13)
