RONSS, Baudouin van (1525-96). De magnis Hippocratis lienibus, Pliniique stomacace ac sceletyrbe, Wittenberg, 1585, 8vo, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations, modern boards. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Second edition.

RONSS, Baudouin van (1525-96).  De magnis Hippocratis lienibus, Pliniique stomacace ac sceletyrbe, seu vulgò dicto scorbuto commentariolus. Accessere eiusdem epistolæ quinq: eiusdem argumenti. Ioannis Echthii de scorbuto epitome. Ioannis Vuieri de scorbuto observatio. Ioannuis Langii Epistolæ duæ de scorbuto. Citò, tutò, & iocundè. Wittenberg: "Clemens Schleich excudebat," 1585. 8vo (154 x 95mm). Woodcut device on the title repeated at the end, woodcut initials and typographical ornaments, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations, one on either side of a single leaf, with a final blank after N6, but no blank before the title [A1] (some light browning, light stain mainly to the lower half of many leaves including the 2 illustrations). Modern marbled boards with black lettering-piece on the spine, new endpapers. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor John Yudkin (modern bookplate; please see the biographical note at the end of lot 308); old unidentified stamp on the title; modern pencil annotation to the front pastedown. Second edition. The first edition was published in Antwerp in 1564. Durling A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine 3937; cf. Harrison & Morton 3710: "Jean de Joinville was probably the first, about 1250, to describe scurvy; Vasco da Gama noted its occurrence at sea, and Jacques Cartier mentions it. Ronsseus [i.e. Ronss] gave an early medical account, describing how sailors cured themselves by eating oranges and lemons as soon as they reached the coast of Spain."