Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

1498, and adorned with tables not as rudely elaborated as those which exist in Hundt's book.

But let these things suffice to have said concerning the Anthropology of our Magnus Hundt, which seems to have lain in the oblivion of many, and hence to have been numbered among the rarer books, because, as PLATNERUS rightly judges, similar writings of those dark times, in the great light of letters which we enjoy today, are sought by few students of literary matters, and by the rest, who hasten to more perfect things, are deservedly neglected.

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New method of medicine, of curing diseases, drawn from mathematical science, now again revised and most exactly amended, by IOHANNES HASFURTO, Virdungo, most learned Physician and Astrologer. With Imperial grace and privilege. Printed at Hagenau. In the year M. D. XXX. Vat. Kob. 4.

That rare books are not always the best, or worthy to be read, but that sometimes a certain useless book becomes of value due to its rarity alone, is correctly judged by the most famous VOGTIUS in Axiom VI prefixed to his more general Catalogue, and many others whom he cites feel the same. Perhaps I would not have erred if I had affirmed that for this reason the value must be set for the book I have named. Its author IOHANNES