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GALEN (130-200?). Dissectionis venarum arteriarumque commentarium. Eiusdem de nervis compendium. Commentary by Antonio Fortolo. Paris: Simon de Colines, 4 April 1526. Collation: a-b 8 c 4 . 3 woodcut initials. FIRST EDITION. Renouard-Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des editions parisiennes III.1000; noted but not seen by Renouard, Simon de Colines p.86, the Bibliotheque Nationale copy being lost. [ Bound with :] Galeottus MARTIUS. [ De Homine ; Georgius MERULA. In librum de homine Galeotti ; Galeottus MARTIUS. Refutatio .] Turin: Joannes Angelus & Bernardinus de Sylva, 20 February 1517. Collation: A-C 8 D 4 E-Q 8 R 4 ; a 8 (R4 blank). Occasional woodcut initials, half-page woodcut of the author teaching pupils on first page. [ Bound with :] Alessandro BENEDETTI (ca.1450-1512). Anatomice sive historia corporis humani. Eiusdem collectiones medicinales seu aforismi. Paris: Henri Estienne, 4 January 1514. Collation: a-h 8 i 4 k 8 l 6 . Woodcut title border incorporating two men disputing, woodcut initials. Wellcome I.200; Durling 521. FIRST EDITION. [ Bound with: ] MUNDINUS (1275-1326). De omnibus humani corporis interioribus menbris Anathomia. Edited by Johannes Adelphus. Strassburg: Martinus Flach, 1513. Occasional woodcut initials, one small diagram, three-quarter page woodcut of an anatomical man surrounded by signs of the zodiac. Durling 3229. 4 works in one volume, 4° (204 x 143mm). (Light worming to last three leaves of first work, and first four leaves of the second.) Contemporary London binding, blindstamped calf over wooden boards, panelled in blind, [Oldham, English blind-stamped Bindings , pl.xliii FL.a (4) 707 or pl.xxxiii 488 and pl.lvii A.(5) 963], vellum pastedowns from a 14th-century mathematical manuscript, (upper cover detached, spine defective, clasps lacking, stitching broken). Provenance : (1) John Mason artium magister, (possibly Sir John Mason diplomat 1503-1566, who graduated M.A. in 1524/25), signature on title, lower flyleaf and note on lower pastedown, purchased for 3 shillings 5 pence, dated 'MDXXV'[ sic. ], his extensive marginal annotations throughout in red and black ink; a note, possibly in Mason's hand on lower pastedown "Recevyd of master standyshe vi s viii d ". (2) Rafe Thackham , inscribed on title "I will not stick to say nor boldly for to tell, the water that by stealth is got all other doth excell", dated 1577. (3) William Hall of the Middle Temple, 18th-century signature on title. A FINE SAMMELBAND WITH AN INTERESTING PROVENANCE. Sir John Mason was a statesman and diplomatist who almost miraculously remained in favour with Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. His interest in medicine was perhaps limited to a concern for his own health, but the DNB notes that Dr. John Caius the younger did dedicate to him an edition of his De Medendi Methodo .