Lot 427
Pedersen, Christiern
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
En nottelig Lege bog ffaar ffattige och Rige Vuge. Malmo: [J. Hoochstraten], 1533. First edition, 4to (171 x 123mm.), woodcut initials, woodcut device on verso of final leaf, eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, lacking 9 leaves (A4, B1, C4), A1-2 & C1-4 supplied in pen facsimile, many headlines cropped, some light soiling, recased
Footnote
Note: "The earliest preserved medical book printed in danish" (Rosenkilde & Ballhausen). Pedersen, like Henrik Smith, was not a trained physician and drew heavily on the work of others, including, as he tells us, Petrus Hispanus's Thesaurus pauperum and Bartholomaeus Vogter's Ain nutzlich und notwendige Artzney Büchlein. Of the thirteen recorded copies in public libraries, only six are complete.
Nielsen 210; Rosenkilde & Ballhausen 259; Waller 7283