Poynter, F N L.
A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Vol. I: Books printed before 1641.
With a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale. Revised edition, with amendments from the library`s working copies. New York, Martino Publishing
1996,
cm.22,5x30,
pp.XV, 407,
hardcover.
Limited to 400 copies.
Vol. I of this catalogue contains 6,959 items, including a supplement of 131 items (containing great rarities). In each item are given biographical dates of the authors, a brief collation of pages, the presence of plates, woodcuts, portraits and tables. Brief references are given to the incunabula . The year 1641 has been chosen because it coincides approximately with the decline of classical an mediaeval ideas and the beginning of modern scientific."