Three Volumes Regarding Historic UK Hospitals: Two Facsimile Volumes by Thomas VICARY (1577) and William CLOWES (1596) with a Discussion of George HERIOT's Philanthropy (1563-1624)
1) VICARY, Thomas (d.1562) 'The Anatomie of the Human Bodie of Man'. Part 1, Part 2 apparently never published. The edition of 1548 as re-issued by the surgeons of St Bartholomew's in 1577. Edited by Fredk J. Furnivall and Percy Furnivall. Pub. LONDON: Published for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1888. Second Impression 1930. Collation: 8° A-Y8 ($1-2 signed) pp. 4-336. Includes fold out map. 'His anatomy is wholly based on that of Henri de Mondeville from a translation into English done in 1392. First printed in 1548 the first extant edition is that of 1577. Vicary secured the union of the barbers and surgeons of London in 154. His name is remembered in the Thomas Vicary lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons.' (Russell, Catalogue of the Historical Books in the Library of the RACS, p.142)
'This work is of particular value because of the appendices containing all archival material related to Vicary and St. Bartholomew's Hospital.' (Russell British Anatomy 847).
Quarter leather and buckram with gold embossed title to spine, bound by Green, Melbourne, speckled edges, map of London, minor foxing and tanning. References: Bibliothoea Walleriana 9949; Russell British Anatomy 847. Russell, Catalogue of the Historical Books in the Library of the RACS. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (126x132mm)
2) CLOWES, William (1544-1604) 'A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of Gun powder, and also for curing of wounds made with Musket and Caliver shot, and other weapons of war commonly used at this day both at sea and land'. Pub. LONDON: Edm. Bollifant, for Thomas Dawson, 1596. Fascimile reprint of the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library
Facsimile with introductions general and medical by De Witt T. Starnes and Chauncey D. Leake. New York: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints 1945. Eight page introduction by D. T. Starnes; ten page medical introduction by Chauncey D. Leake; Bibliographical note and six page list of Physicians and Surgeons mentioned in Clowes' Observations. Collation: 4° A-2F4 ($1-2 signed) 116 leaves; pp. [5] 2-229 [3]. Eight page introduction by D.T. Starnes; ten page medical introduction by Chauncey D. Leake; Bibliographical note and six page list of Physicians and Surgeons mentioned in Clowes' Observations. Facsimile reprint of the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library. 'Clowes, the best surgical writer in Elizabethan times, was surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital.' (Garrison and Morton 2141). Red Buckram with gold embossed Initials to cover and title to spine, very minor tanning and foxing. Bookplate: Ex Libris K.F. Russell (230x150mm)
3) HERIOT, George (1563-1624) 'Memoirs of George Heriot jeweller to King James VI with an historical account of the hospital founded by him at Edinburgh'. Pub. EDINBURGH: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson and Co. London. 1822. Collation: 8° p6(-1) B-P8 Q2 ($1-2 signed) 119 leaves; pp. [5] iv-viii [1] 2-228. Illustrations include Frontispiece, statue of Heriot; plates facing D1v, O1r, O8v. Heriot was the 'Jingling Geordie' of Sir Walter Scott's Fortunes of Nigel. The Hospital for children, was opened in 1659.
Half binding of green and dark brown morocco with faded marbled paper and gold embossed title to spine, marbling endpapers, slightly faded to cover, some foxing and tanning, some trimmed pages. William Menzies. Signature of G. Arch. Constable at back. Bookplate of William Menzies & K.F. Russell (167x102 mm)




PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $250-300