Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

1498, adorned with tables not worked with such crude wisdom as those which exist in Hundt's book.
But let it suffice to have said these things about the Anthropologium of our Magnus Hundt, which seems to have lain in the oblivion of many, and hence to have been counted among the rarer books, because, as PLATNER correctly judges, similar writings of those dark times in the great light of letters which we enjoy today are sought by few students of literary matters, and by the rest, hastening to more perfect things, are rightfully neglected.

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A New Method of Medicine, for curing diseases, drawn from mathematical science, now again revised and most exactly amended, by IOHANN HASFURT, Virdung, most learned Physician and Astrologer, Author. With grace and Imperial privilege. Printed at Hagenau. In the year 1530. Vat. Kob. 4.

That rare books are not always the best, or worthy of being read, but sometimes even a certain useless book becomes valued for rarity alone, is correctly judged by the most famous VOGT in Axiom VI. prefixed to his more general Catalog, and many other authors whom he cites feel the same. Perhaps I would not be wrong if I were to affirm that for the same reason, a price should be set on this book which I have named. Its author IOHANN