Gabelkover (Oswald) The Boock of Physicke...Most of them selected, and approued remedyes, for all corporall diseases, and sicknesses, which out of manye highe, and common persons written physick-boockes, are compacted, and vnited together, first and only edition in English, translated by A.M., double column, fine engraved pictorial title by B. Dolendo, with large royal arms at head and a view of Dordecht at foot, glossary f. at end, with contemporary ink ms. medical receipts verso for 'plauge', 'crampe' and 'drospy', lacking 2K2 & 5, both supplied in good facsimile from the BL copy, title trimmed at outer and lower edges, just within border, glossary f. little chipped at outer edge, lightly browned, occasional staining, new endpapers, contemporary vellum over later boards, repaired, soiled, [NLM/Durling 1737; Wellcome I, 2488; STC 11513], folio (279 x 179mm.), Dordecht, Isaack Caen, 1599.

⁂ First and only edition in English of Gabelkover's Nützlich Artzneybuch für alle des Menschlichen Leibes anliegen und gebrechen, Tübingen, 1595, a domestic medical guide. Includes the illnesses of women and children, fevers, plagues, burns and wounds. Rare at auction.

Provenance: 'To E.M. geve this: ex dono ?R G 1614...'; 'Robert Cholmondley' (17th century ink inscriptions to title); 'Ms. Ann Hall hur Boock, the Gueft of my Ant Hall, of 'Esex'; 'Alice Whitfell, her book' (17th century inscriptions cut from a leaf and mounted on new endpapers).