Browse Items (414 total)

A physician is taking the pulse of a woman sitting up in bed; she appears to be looking and smiling at a young man standing to the right; another man is standing to the left of the physician.

Is part of: Microcosmus hypochondriacus; sive, De melancholia hypochondriaca tractatus, title page.; See related catalog record: 2352066R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving

1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone

1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone

The titlepage shows Eve and Adam cast out of paradise from various characters. A figure with a laurel wreath and caduceus in hand pulls Eve by the hair

Tongue depressor, forceps for seton in children, needles, and cautery iron contained within a long cannula. For descriptions of the instruments, see H. Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De chirurgicis operationibus, in his Opera chirurgica, Padua: F.…

[6], cv, [1] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.

1 print : 35 x 24 cm.
Technique:
etching

1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour

Ricord uses a knife upon cupids

1 print : 49 x 34 cm.
Technique:
woodcut, color