TAGLIACOZZI, GASPARE(1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem. Apud Gasparem Bindonum, juniorem, 1597. 32 cm tall. Tagliacozzi studied under Girolamo Cardano at the University of Bologna. After graduating, he became a professor of surgery and anatomy at Bologna. This work, “Concerning the surgery of the mutilated by grafting,” is a classic in the history of plastic surgery and isContinue reading “December 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Early Italian Facial Plastic Surgery”
Category Archives: John Martin Rare Book Room
November 2021 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Japanese Scroll from Mid-Edo Period
Full newsletter including more information about Japanese scrolls and additional images. UNKNOWN. Medicinal plants scroll from Japan’s mid-Edo period. Estimated date of creation is between 1727 and 1800. 29 x 800 cm. English translation available. The Medicinal plants scroll is, as its name suggests, a catalog of native Japanese plants, describing their habitats, flowers, fruits, and medicinal uses.Continue reading “November 2021 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Japanese Scroll from Mid-Edo Period”
New Acquisition | John Martin Rare Book Room | Bleuland, Otium academicum
BLEULAND, JAN (1756-1838) Otium academicum : continens descriptionem speciminum nonnullarum partium corporis humani et animalium subtilioris anatomiae ope in physiologicum usum praeparatarum, aliarumque, quibus morborum organicorum natura illustratur. [Academic leisure: containing a description of several specimens of the human body and of exact animal anatomy prepared for use in physiology, and containing a description of otherContinue reading “New Acquisition | John Martin Rare Book Room | Bleuland, Otium academicum”
Celebrate International Cat Day! | Historic Medical Book Illustrated by Jakob Cats
Jan Van Beverwijck (1594-1647) Schat der gesontheyt. Second edition, printed in 1638 The interest of this book is not in its value to the history of medicine, however, but in its numerous emblematic copperplate illustrations by the Dutch poet Jakob Cats (1577-1666). This small book gives a great deal of advice for the preservation ofContinue reading “Celebrate International Cat Day! | Historic Medical Book Illustrated by Jakob Cats”
New Book: Theodor Schwann, Mikroskopische…, 1839 | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
THEODOR SCHWANN (1810-1882). Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. [Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants] Printed by Georg Reimer in Berlin in 1839. First edition. 270 pages. 21 cm tall. Schwann was an energetic and talented researcher, inventor,Continue reading “New Book: Theodor Schwann, Mikroskopische…, 1839 | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Medieval Home Medicine | Week 3 | National Poetry Month @Hardin Library
Celebrate National Poetry Month by viewing this medieval didactic poem in hexameter verse. Make an appointment to view in person or by Zoom with curator damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or by calling 319-335-9154. REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM The Englishmans doctor, or, The school of Salerne. Printed for John Helme 1612 5th impression. [48] pp. 13.7 cm. First English translationContinue reading “Medieval Home Medicine | Week 3 | National Poetry Month @Hardin Library”
Herbal, Poetry, Recipes from 1652 | Week 2 of National Poetry Month | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
Celebrate National Poetry Month by viewing this work perhaps written by James Howell. Make an appointment to view in person with curator damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or by calling 319-335-9154. [JAMES HOWELL] (1594?-1666)] A hermeticall banquet, drest by a spagiricall cook : for the better preservation of the microcosme. Printed for Andrew Crooke, and are to be soldContinue reading “Herbal, Poetry, Recipes from 1652 | Week 2 of National Poetry Month | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
National Poetry Month @John Martin Rare Book Room | Week 1 | The Botanic Garden by Erasmum
Celebrate National Poetry Month by viewing this work of 2400 rhyming couplets by Erasmus. Make an appointment to view in person with curator damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or by calling 319-335-9154. ERASMUS DARWIN (1731-1802) The botanic garden; A poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. Printed forContinue reading “National Poetry Month @John Martin Rare Book Room | Week 1 | The Botanic Garden by Erasmum”
Loncier, Kreuterbuch… | 1587 German Herbal | March 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ADAM LONICER (1528-1586) Kreuterbuch, kunstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze. Printed in Frankfort by Christian Egenolph, 1587. 382 numbered leaves (764 pages) with color illustrations. 31 cm tall. We know from other sources that Lonicer (also referenced as Lonitzer, Lonicerum, Lonicerus, or Loniceri) worked as a proofreader for his father-in-law, aContinue reading “Loncier, Kreuterbuch… | 1587 German Herbal | March 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
You cannot judge a book by its cover. The title page is another story.
by Duncan Stewart, MA, MLIS, Rare Materials Cataloger, University of Iowa Libraries, Adjunct Faculty, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Iowa The John Martin Rare Book Room (JMRBR) is filled with books of great medical historical value. But do you know how all those books get into the JMRBR? A book’s journey toContinue reading “You cannot judge a book by its cover. The title page is another story.”