[SENNERET MEDICINE WROCŁAW] SENNERTI Danielis - Opera Omnia in Quatuor Tomos Divisa 1656

2 co-edited volumes ofthe collectedworks ofthe Wroclaw physician Daniel Sennerti:

Tomus Primus quo continentura Epitome Scientae Naturalis; Hypomnemata Physica; De Consesu& Diffensu Chymicoum cum Galenicis [De chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Galenicis consensu ac dissensu]; De Orgine Animarum in brutis [De orgine et natura animarum in brutis].

Tomus Secundus quo continentura institutionum medicina Libri quuinque; De Febribus Libri quatuor; Falciculus Medicamentorum contra pestem

Thefirst volume contains: The personification of the natural sciences; Physical hypomnemata; On the agreement of the chemists with the Aristotelians and Galenists; On the origin and nature of the soul in animals

The second volume contains: The book of medical institutions; 4 Books on fever; A bundle of remedies for the plague

Daniel Sennert (1572 - 1637) - German physician and academician, longtime professor at the University of Wittenberg. Born in Breslau as the son of a Silesian shoemaker, he studied at the University of Wittenberg. He published many popular books not only on medicine but also on alchemy and chemistry, and was distinguished for his contributions to the development of atomic theory. He was the author of one of the first descriptions of scarlet fever. He served on the faculty of the University of Wittenberg until the end of his life. He served six times as dean of the medical faculty at Wittenberg, and was the physician to many aristocrats and rulers, including John George I, Elector of Saxony. He died of the plague in 1637 in Wittenberg.

Rich ornamentation and floral motifs in the text, a frontispiece with a portrait of the author, and an engraving on the title page alluding to both the classical Greek school and Christianity:portrait of Claudius Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them and the Latin motto Universitas rerum ut pulvis in manu Jehovae (The universe is like a handful of dust in the hand of God)

Year of publication: Lugduni [Lyon], 1654-1656, Sumptibus Ioannis Antonii Huguetan, & Marci Antonii Rauaud

s. [36], 870, [34].

Format: 37 x 23.5 cm

Binding: full period leather, six-panel spine, signboard with titlepage on spine, decorative crumbled page trims

Condition: complete and consistent, no underlining or signatures in the text, [PROVENANCE: on the first 2 pages 3 early period signatures, one with the date 1658] 1 page incorrectly trimmed [the longer one - minor folds], rust discoloration in places [foxing-without damage to the text], binding with rubbing and corner creases