1577 - Father, C.

Father, C. Physiologia experimentis et demonstrationibus mechanicis, chimicis et anatomicis illustrata et confirmata. Wittenberg, Christian Kreusig, 1701. 799, (xxxxii) p. 18th-century half-calf over vellum boards. Spine richly gilt-decorated and lettered. Some wormholes at the beginning, browned, otherwise in very good condition. 4to. Provenance: “Ex Bibliophylacio Caroli Joannis Nepom. Altmann. Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine and Provincial Physician of Cremsen.” (= printed ex-libris on the front endpaper and the same in handwriting on the title page dated 1762.) The extremely rare first edition (only one copy in WorldCat/OCLC) of this work on physiology. Christian Vater was a professor of pathology and physics; some of his subjects included: *De elatere corporum*, *De frigore*, *De sono*, *De temperamento*, *De mineralis sulphureis*, *De alimentorum canali*, *De cerebro oblongato ejusdemque nervis*. – 108.