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ANATQMICA DE MOTV CORDIS ET SAN- GVINIS in ANII4ALI- BVS, (J VIL IE L M I HA Rtre[ ANGLI, ' M^Edictregii, ^ eXERCITATIO ANATQMICA DE MOTV CORDIS ET SAN- GVINIS IN ANII4ALI- BVS, (j VIL IE L M I HA RTrE[ ANGLI, ' M^edictRegii, ^. e^f(fejforis tAnatomix, wCol- W ^{sMc^uw tfiieliniH/i. FRANCOFy-RTI, ibusGVILIELMI ^ITZERI. Sumpt . »-,, .1NNO M. DC. XXCIU. /: '-^?-iv . <-f^Ut^i-f^K. 'SM^-/. ^» tt-^ <i. ^ity ^ 77^-- %yy^eie. ^ ^^ft^ y^jut^ /^ 240. MEDICINE,TRAVEL & ANTHROPOLOGY from the Library ofjohann Friedrich Blumenbach A Catalogue of the Blumenbach/Herbst Collection With a Supplement from our Stock Catalogue Six Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. 442 Post St., San Francisco California 94102 U. S. A. Telephone: (415) 781-6402 Cable: LOGOS, San Francisco underliningand ^bok;HOWV, t:[, v!he^w^^ All items are guaranteed as described. P"c»_^^ ^vue"co'ns'i^ed'ofmore than underlinmg^^mb^s w^ and'subTect'tO'change. Shipping charges ^be^d 'h^e'ge'naa'lly "indicated this by an estimate of the ^e^^nittance'aSompa^s^r^5^^^ number of lines of written comment. fornia ple^e add appropr. ate ^les,tax-, A11,t', ooks^re, Our measurements indicate page size. 'pa;keYw i7h great care and^entfollym^rd. ^al^ ^ranTo^nic'Shipments w .11be forwardedbyreg. ster^d Thiscatalogue was_written^ed^b^^m^. D. airmail at customer's expense unless we receiver Nolrm'^nlnTD"avida-Rubin. Photography by Martin In'st'ru'ctions"AU purchases may be returned within two Krikorian. Cover by Ross Design. weeks of receipt. 'ZFrf^'ill^rations are-duced^d^m;^ "Customers who have not purchased from us betore senrde^ils'from'ilh. strations rathe, than the complete should'send payment with order, or supply trade^ret^ original plate. erences in the United States. Institutions may receive The illustration onthe front covers from45^Beren^ deferred billing upon request. Our telephone number is (415) 781-6402. ^ Office sSi2Sii|^^F. G. Herbst, to through Friday. tofE. hourrare~To^m. -6 p. m., Monday rbaprhod^h'iI scs,ugunTt uTe:and'th, The code word for this catalogue is SEX. h will^be whom his books passed, beneath it. const'med'as "From Catalogue^se^ Ac M lowmg items'"' . " Ourcable address isLOGOS, SanFrancisco. Foreigncustomers should^pay by^^hie^^hec^^ U. S"'do611ars"'or"by"U. S. dollar'checks from U. S.^bank ac'countTc'ustomers pa^in^g^^Eu^a^^he^^^ aEu'rochecks-~written inU. S: dollars shouldadd $10.( for collection charges. Note to the trade: Under the tcrms^ofwr cw»s^ BIumenbach/ meM"LaYr"eement"P"ces of books in the Herbst collection must be net to all. aationofsome terms used in our catalogue: We ©Copyright 1979Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. have^se7thegeneral terms "annotations" and """"s^to "Printed in the United States of America Ic'^ru''not"onfy"actual phrases and sentences but also THE BLUMENBACH/HERBST had some of the very books used by Blumenbach to compile that bibliography. What Herbst described COLLECTION seemed to be a large portion of Blumenbach's working library, many books Blumenbach used for his own wide- Traverse City, Michigan, a resort community some- ranging researches, books presented to him by his times called "The Cherry Capital of the World, " seemed students and colleagues, and even annotated working like an unlikely location for a first edition of Harvey s copies of some of his own publications. Many of the Dc motu cordis (1628). Nevertheless, early in 1977, I was books were outstanding collectors' items in themselves, on the track of a copy there. I received a letter from but what was most extraordinary was that the books were Robert M. Herbst of Lake Leelanau, an even smaller re- part of a single important library assembled c. 1775 sort town outside of Traverse City, summarizing his 11- 1840. It was hard to believe that this collection had brary of more than 500 medical and travel books. Most remained intact until the present. When Herbst casually ofHerbst's library had been assembled by that celebrated mentioned that he looked forward to hearing of my 18th century polyhistor, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, "possible interest in these books", I hastened to reply in whose name was already familiar to me as the founder of the affirmative. anthropology. Now that our catalogue is finally complete, I would The list of books which Herbst sent to me was mouth- like co relate che history of the collection and to point out watering-first editions of Harvey, Berengario da Carpi, some of its highlights within the context ofthe careers of Vesalius, eec., etc., and important travel books which its original owner, BIumenbach, and the three very long- Blumenbach used and annotated. I knew that among his lived members of the Herbst family who have held it diverse publications Blumenbach had compiled one of over the past 140 years. the first subject bibliographies of medical historical The first Herbst to own the Blumenbach books was literature-Introductio in htstoriam medicmae Ittterariam Robert Herbst's grandfather, Ernst Friedrich Gustav (1786; item 63). From Herbst's list it was clear that he Herbst (1803-93; see portrait). Gustav Herbst, as he preferred to be known, wasa pupil and later colleagueof Blumenbach at Goctingen. We now know that he purchased the books at the auction of Blumenbach's / library in 1840 (see illustration and supplement item S17a). Study of the printed auction catalogue suggests chat Herbst purchased about one-fifth of the total Blumenbach library, and that Herbst's selection reflected boch his taste for rare medical classics as well as his own particular research interests in anatomy and physiology. After receiving his M. D. at Gottingen, Herbst remained there as "Privat Dozent. " He became an assistant under Blumenbach in the "Museum, " was appointed assistant librarian for the medical faculty, was awarded a Blumen- bach Fellowship for study in London, and was eventually appointed "Ausserordenclich Professor" on the Gottin- gen medical faculty. Today E. F. Gustav Herbst is probably most often remembered for his discovery of the so-called "Herbst s bodies or corpuscles"-the sensory terminals in the skin of the beaks of birds. These he first described in Ueherdic Pacinischen Korper und ihre Bedeutung (1848; Dobson, Anatomical epm-yms {1962192). In addition, Herbst published experiments describing the appearance of starch particles in the lymph and subsequently in the blood after ingescion of massive doses of search in the stomach of dogs. The validity of this observation, long discredited, has only recently been recognized. The phe- nomenon, now known as persorption, has been named E. F. G. Herbst, discoverer of "Herbst's cells or corpuscles" and the "Herbst Effect" in the German literature. These persorption, from a photograph c. 1880 in the possession of Robert M. Herbst. observations appeared in Herbst's book on the lymphatic grandfather in 1893 to the present. The books remained m'Gottingen until 1900 when they were dipped ^t0 ZurKh, and from Zurich to New York. Roberta. S3 cr i ci c[;ni^ Herbst;s father, Robert Philipp Herbst (1849-1930), left Gottingen about 1866 to pursue a business career in bcr »om America, leaving home at the early age of 17 to avoid wed. &6ei-mebicin(ilratt; SBIumenSa^ conscription in the Prussian Army. Not being a scien- tist. Robert Philipp Herbst stored the books as family na^gdafTencn heirlooms, and willed them to his son, the^ present o'wner. who hadshown an early interest in theUbrary.A professor of organic chemistry, now^retired in Lake e t/ Leelanau, Michigan, Dr. Robert M. Herbst taught at uclctie CoTumbia University, New York University, and^at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Early in his S);ontaa6 ben 27. S"Ii 1840 career"he came into contact with the great historian, Howard Adelmann, and others who stimulated his unb an ben folgcnhn Saacn researches on the Blumenbach/Herbst collection. ^ He prepared a very comprehensive cross-index ofthe collec- Mben&S »on 6 l>i§ 8 U^r tioa. which was of considerable assistance to us in preparing this catalogue. in bee the 555 item catalogue of the Blumenbach/MerDst SBoljnung bcS Uniu. ' (Sciic^tS >9)rocutati)t6 collection, and our own supplement of 124 items, reflect a cross-section of the extremely diverse interests of gr. gu^. ©d)eptle( Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) one ofthe most influential contributors to the history ofanthropol- an t(i 3ubra|tta|ic ogy, comparative anatomy, and natural history m gen- meiftbicfenb (inhuft crti(n foUcn. eral. From the ownership inscriptions in some of the books, Blumenbach developed his scholarly interests at an early age. His earliest dated acquisition 1" °ur catalogue is item 409. Peyei Parergaanatomica (1682). Blumenbach acquired this technical medical book when ©oftingcn, 1840. he was only 15 yearsold, studying at the Gymnasium at Sicwt Secjri<)ni? nirt bni'tt). !)"' Suiitinbet Sldiid Gotha. In '1769 Blumenbach completed his Gymnasium 'jnn.'°tNro. ''t't3. Subtnfir'-'^J iiuSacijcbcn). Studiesand enrolled at the University of Jena. K. F. Marx, Blumenbach'spersonal physicianand biographer, points Sopct 4 s).'f. jum S8i|tin b(r 2Iimtn. out' that Blumenbach selected Jena mainly because he wanted to attend the medical lectures of Carl Friedrich S17a. Catalogue ofthe auctionof Blumcnbach's library, from which Kakschmied (1706-69; G-M 3424. 1), but on the very day Kaltschmied's lectures commenced, Kaltschmied the present collection was formed, dropped deadfrom apoplexy at a weddingdance for one system, Dos Lymphgefass-system (\S^; Leiber & Olbert, of his friends. Blumeabach's inscription in his copy of Die ktinischen Eponyme [1968] 198). the first edition of Eustachi's Tabulae anatomical W^\ Herbst's neat signature can frequently be found in the item 178) indicatesthat hepurchased it at theauction of books near that of Blumenbach. Herbst did not have Kakschmied's books in 1770.
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