Live auction - Lot 884
[Medicine - Diamonds]
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de adamante, quam [...] in Alma Fridericiana praeside D. Ioanne Henrico Schulze [...] pro gradu doctoris [...] in medicina [...] ad diem V. Calend. Maii, M DCC XXXVII. [...] respondens Joannes Fabri, Pannonius [...].
Halle (S.), J. Chr. Hilliger, 1737
€ 150 / 250
Lot description
4to: 30 ff. (text of dissertation complete but VD18 is mentioning a copy with 5 more ff. (being "Glückwunschschreiben der Freunde des Respondenten")).
Sewn, paper strip on spine. Very good copy.
Rare early academic treatise on the medical qualities of diamonds. With references to Brazilian diamonds, Tavernier’s description of Asian mines, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt etc.
Ref. VD18 9013186X. - Not in Blake, Wellcome, Sinkankas.