Gerardi van Swieten med. doct. Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis morbis
Contributors: Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738; Delfos, Abraham, 1731-1820, engraver; J. et H. Verbeek; Boekdrukkerij Van Damme
Publisher: Apud Johannem et Hermannum Verbeek, bibliop
Published: 1742
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Other titles: Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.
Work titles: Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos
Notes: Pagination: v. 1: [12], 956; v. 2: [4], 810, [2]; v. 3: [8], 685, [1]; v. 4: [8], 751, [1]; v. 5: [12], 691, [71], 94, [2] p.

T.1 has addition to imprint: "Prostat Londini apud Gulielmum Meyer, ad insignia Boerhaaviana in vico dicto The Strand."; t.3-4 have "Prostant Londini apud Johannem Noursse."

Title pages printed in red and black; t.3-5 with an engraved printer's device, with motto: "Varietas delectat". The device has been re-engraved for t.3 and signed: "A.D. del. R.B. s".

Title of t.3-5 begins: "Gerardi L.B. van Swieten ..."

With half-title page (to t.1 and t.5): "Gerardi van Swieten med. doct. Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis morbis".

Engraved frontispiece plate to t.4, depicting a monument to Boerhaave; signed: "Del. et fec. A. Delfos".

In t.5, "Hermanni Boerhaave libellus de materie medica et remediorum formulis, quae serviunt Aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis" has a divisional half-title on leaf ²A1, starting new pagination and register.

Colophon: "E typographia Dammeana."

Text ornamented with woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Includes bibliographical footnotes; the final [71] unnumbered pages in t.5 also contain a bibliography and an index to all 5 volumes.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Bound in 18th century calf, rebacked and repaired; new spines in compartments, blind tooled decoration, green goatskin title label, red goatskin label for volume number. Library rules of Medical Society of London pasted onto front pastedowns.