Author: SCHOUTEN, Wouter.- Ex bibliothca Cornelis Henricus a Roy.-
Title: Verhandeling van de tegennatuurlyke gezwellen, In haare verscheidene soorten, oorzaken, teekenen, voorseggingen en genesingen vertoont, En op onwrikbare Gronden van Reden en Ondervinding, Door vijftigjaarige Konstoeffening en veel op- merkelyke gevallen bevestigt. Ten diensten voor Leergierige jonge Heelemeesters Door Wouter Schouten, Heelmeester en Practisyn in Haarlem. [Eerste Deel; Tweede Deel].
Description: Rotterdam, By Hermanus Kentlink, Boekverkooper agter 't Stadhuis, 1727. 8vo. In 2 vols. Title vol. I printed in red and black, small woodcut vign. on titles. Nice contemp. full vellum, some surface soiling. [*8, **8, ***1, A - Z8, Aa - Ee8 Ff2; n1, Ff3-4, Gg6, Hh - Tt8, Vv6 - Vv8 - Zz8, Aaa - Lll8, Mmm6, Nnn3 (or according to STCN Nnn2 & Ooo1).] (XXXIV, 1 - 452; II (printed title), 453 - 916, V (book catalogue Kentlink), I (blank) pp.). (Vol. I w. 2 bookplates on upper paste down, 1 engraved, 1 in offset lith., of the medical doctors Cornelis Henricus a Roy & C.B.Tilanus, former lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, vol. II w. the bookplate of C.H. a Roy only.). (Text throughout yellowed, some light to medium browning, occasional foxing / foxed spots, vol. II some more visible browning and foxing throughout.). Wouter Schouten [1638 - 1704], famous for his travel account 'Oost-Indische Voyagie..'[1676], was appointed vice-surgeon at the East India Company on March 6, 1658. On his return from the East Indies he set up surgical practice at Haarlem in 1665, he married the niece of Frederik Ruysch in 1666 and remained active in Haarlem until his death in 1704. His 'Verhandeling...' offered here was published posthumously in Rotterdam in 1727. 'Schouten was an able and honest surgeon with a sound judgement..' BMN vol. I, p. 320: Blake, p. 408: see DMB, c. 1771 - 1772: Hirsch vol. V, p. 131: Haller, vol. I, pp. 514 - 515 '... vir expertus, sincerus, integer': Banga, pp. 704 - 709: van der Aa, vol. VI, pp. 147 - 148: NNBW, vol. V., c. 703: Baumann, 'Een Haarlemsch chirurgijn uit de XVIIe eeuw' i.l.c.: DMB [Lindeboom Dutch Medical biography], c. 1681 - 1682 on Cornelis Henricus a roy, 1750 - 1833, general practice, bibliophily. A Roy graduated MD in Leiden under Sandifort w. a thesis 'De Scoliosi', in 1774. He set up practice in Amsterdam and worked there for 60 years. Physician to the R.C. "Maagdenhuis", staunch advocate of Jenner and vaccination, from 1808 - 1810 consultant physician to King Louis Napoleon, who appointed him in 1808 to member of the Royal Dutch Institute [later KNAW], 'when he died he left the biggest medical library any person in Europe then possessed. The Library, comprising 17.6000 [sic! = 17600] books [in actual fact 18034 lots of books, over 3000 medical portraits and 15 library furniture lots], was sold by auction on 25 August 1834.' A Roy published a 5 [=6 incl. a small supplement] volume catalogue of his collection 'Catalogus bibliothecae Medicae Cornelii Henrici a Roy', 1830 - 1834; On the owner of this publication after a Roy see Lindeboom column 1979 - 1980, for TILANUS (2), Christiaan Bernard (1856 - 1942, surgery and orthopaedics.]. Admitted as private lecturer in 1885, director of an Amsterdam based orthopaedic clinic. An office he held until 1917. STCN gives 3 copies at University Library Amsterdam, all 3 copies missing leaves Nnn2 & Ooo1. Our copy with the quire Nnn2 [a book catalogue of the publisher Kentlink], followed by an unsigned leaf [Nnn3 or Ooo1?] containing another page of Kentlink's booklist and verso blank. One further copy in STCN [Military Hospital Utrecht].

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