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H. van Roonhuyse, heel-konstige Aanmerkingen, 1663

Hendrick van Roonhuyse – Genees- en Heel-konstige Aanmerkingen – Uitgegeven t’ Amsteldam, By de Weduwe van Theunis Jacobsz. Lootsman, op ‘t Water, in de Loots-man, Anno 1663 – Geb. perkament, formaat 16 x 10 x 4 cm., 3 delen in 1 band. Deel 1: 157 pag. met 5 gravures (4 full page, waaronder 1 frontispieces) met index, 1ste drukDeel 2: pagina 159 tot 258, de Genees en Heel-konst, tweede deel met index.Deel 3: 70 pagina’s Tractaets van de plegmatijke geswellen, beschreven door Read More...

An extremely rare and antique Italian straitjacket

An extremely rare and antique (early 1900’s) straitjacket from the Italian asylum “San Salvi”, in Florence. Established in 1890 the San Salvi has been closed in 1978. Thejacket is in perfect condition, numbered “34” (some pics of almost identical jackets from an Italian museum) Read More...

Beautiful 19th century Italian Surveyors compass signed “Verno fece Milano 1811”

Beautiful 19th century  Italian  Surveyors  compass  signed  “Verno fece Milano 1811”  I was not able to find information about this Italian maker.This kind of compass is part of the instrument called : “Pretorian table after one of its presumed inventors, Johannes Praetorius (1537-1616). Composed of a horizontal table mounted on a tripod and fitted with a compass, shadow square, scale of degrees, and alidade. The user could plot the position angles of the sighted locations directly onto a sheet Read More...