Ioannes Hartmannus - Anthropologia physico-medico-anatomica - 1696

Full limp parchment binding with manuscript title on the spine.

2 white leaves, [7], 350, [1], 1 white leaf

FIRST and only edition of this medical and anatomical treatise written by the German chemist and physician Johannes Hartmann (1568–1631) and published posthumously.

This work is regarded as an original and unique edition of its kind, particularly noted for its iatrochemical approach to understanding the human body.

Beautiful typographic vignette engraved on the title page. Portrait of the author (after Antonius Zoncha and Elisabeth Piccini) engraved on a full-page plate. Numerous decorated initials and tailpieces. Ex libris affixed to the front endpaper. Copy generally in excellent condition. Complete, rare and usable.