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Libellus de materia medica et remedorium formulis, quae servient Aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.Leiden, Isaac Severinus, 1727. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette. Contemporary speckled calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with the author's name in gold.
Libellus de materia medica et remedorium formulis, quae servient Aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.Leiden, Isaac Severinus, 1727. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette. Contemporary speckled calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with the author's name in gold.
BOERHAAVE, Herman. · 1719
€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)
[16], 260, [44] pp.Rare second authorized edition of Boerhaave's collection of prescriptions referring to his Aphorismi. It is a word-for-word exact reprint of Severinus’ first edition of the Materia medica of 1719; the copies of both editions were signed by the publisher; the...
Pharmacie de gand de l'année 1787 traduite en françois.[Ghent, after 1787]. 8vo. Half green morocco, decorated green paper sides.
Pharmacie de gand de l'année 1787 traduite en françois.[Ghent, after 1787]. 8vo. Half green morocco, decorated green paper sides.
[GHENT - PHARMACOPOEIA - MANUSCRIPT]. · 1786
€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)
[2], 175 pp.Manuscript edition of the French translation of the Ghent pharmacopoeia. This partial translation, or abstract, was derived from the edition of the Pharmacopoeia Gandavensis, nobilissimi Senatus Jussu renovate, printed in Ghent by Jhodocus Begyn in 1786 and approve...
Nieuwe beschrijving der meest gebruikelijke kaartspelen, zoo als die hier te lande gespeeld worden. Geheel oorspronkelijk bewerkt.Amsterdam, Hendrik Moolenijzer, 1821. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Original publisher's grey printed wrappers.
Nieuwe beschrijving der meest gebruikelijke kaartspelen, zoo als die hier te lande gespeeld worden. Geheel oorspronkelijk bewerkt.Amsterdam, Hendrik Moolenijzer, 1821. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Original publisher's grey printed wrappers.
[CARD GAMES]. · 1742
€1,100.00 ($1,212.40 | £917.69 | ¥193,605)
[2], IV, 90; [2], 94, [2] pp.Very rare first edition of a description of the most popular card games played in the Netherlands in the first quarter of the 19th century, published in two parts. The first part includes descriptions of the card games vijfhonderden (or: smousjasse...
Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples. Où l’on trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine … & tout ce qu’il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Quatrième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par l’auteur.Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1727. Large 4to. With an engraved title-vignette and 25 folding engraved plates each with 16 figures of various plants, animals and metals, in alphabetical order. Contemporary half calf,.
Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples. Où l’on trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine … & tout ce qu’il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Quatrième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par l’auteur.Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1727. Large 4to. With an engraved title-vignette and 25 folding engraved plates each with 16 figures of various plants, animals and metals, in alphabetical order. Contemporary half calf,.
LEMERY, Nicolas. · 1698
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
[20], 590, [58] pp."Fourth edition" of this important extensive and comprehensive dictionary of active substances in alphabetical order that can possibly be used as medicine: composites and simples respectively giving the sources, virtues, doses, and therapeutic action of the ...
Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples. Où l’on trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine … & tout ce qu’il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Troisième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par l’auteur.Amsterdam, for the "Compagnie", 1716. Large 4to. With an engraved title-vignette ("Vis unita major") and 25 folding engraved plates each with 16 figures of various plants, animals and metals, in alphabetical order. Contemporary speckled calf, title in gold on spine, blind tooled binding edges.
Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples. Où l’on trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine … & tout ce qu’il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Troisième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par l’auteur.Amsterdam, for the "Compagnie", 1716. Large 4to. With an engraved title-vignette ("Vis unita major") and 25 folding engraved plates each with 16 figures of various plants, animals and metals, in alphabetical order. Contemporary speckled calf, title in gold on spine, blind tooled binding edges.
LÉMERY, Nicolas. · 1727
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
[20], 590, [58] pp."Third edition" of this important extensive and comprehensive dictionary of active substances in alphabetical order that can possibly be used as medicine: composites and simples respectively giving the sources, virtues, doses, and therapeutic action of the v...
Calli e canali e isole della laguna [frontispiece: “Calli et canali in Venezia”].Venice, Tipografia Emiliana, 1894-1895. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece showing a gondola in a Venice canal and 100 colletypes of the Venice canals, streets and buildings, mounted on guards and covered with flyleaves, index printed in red and black. Original publisher’s half brown sheepskin, beige cloth sides with blind-tooled frame on the front and back board and with a centrepiece with a boat in the lagoon of Venice and the gold-stamped title and author's name on the front board.
Calli e canali e isole della laguna [frontispiece: “Calli et canali in Venezia”].Venice, Tipografia Emiliana, 1894-1895. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece showing a gondola in a Venice canal and 100 colletypes of the Venice canals, streets and buildings, mounted on guards and covered with flyleaves, index printed in red and black. Original publisher’s half brown sheepskin, beige cloth sides with blind-tooled frame on the front and back board and with a centrepiece with a boat in the lagoon of Venice and the gold-stamped title and author's name on the front board.
ONGANIA, Ferdinando (ed.). · 1895
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[6] including the frontispiece, plus 100 collotypes.1895 edition of the first volume of Ongania's collection of collotype views of Venice in an impressive imperial folio format and in the original publisher's binding. Its Venetian publisher and bookseller Ferdinando Ongania (1...
Theatrum mundi, et temporis in quo non solum precipuae horum partes describuntur, & ratio metiendi eas traditur, sed accomodatissimis figuris sub oculos legentium facile ponuntur.Venice, Giovanni Battista Somasco, 1588. 4to. With Somasco's Sagittarius device on the title-page, 144 full-page woodcuts (particularly circular diagrams, dials and figures of the constellations, but also hemispherical and terrestrial maps and other cosmographical and astronomical figures), 1 large folding table ("Canon sexagenarius"), several full-page or smaller tables in the text and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Lacking the moving volvelles. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title (faded) on spine.
Theatrum mundi, et temporis in quo non solum precipuae horum partes describuntur, & ratio metiendi eas traditur, sed accomodatissimis figuris sub oculos legentium facile ponuntur.Venice, Giovanni Battista Somasco, 1588. 4to. With Somasco's Sagittarius device on the title-page, 144 full-page woodcuts (particularly circular diagrams, dials and figures of the constellations, but also hemispherical and terrestrial maps and other cosmographical and astronomical figures), 1 large folding table ("Canon sexagenarius"), several full-page or smaller tables in the text and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Lacking the moving volvelles. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title (faded) on spine.
GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. · 1586
€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)
[16], 478, [2] pp.First edition of Giovanni Paolo Gallucci’s Theatrum mundi, considered the first modern celestial atlas. This 16th-century atlas was the first to use the Copernican coordinates for the locations of the stars. In six books, Gallucci provided his readers with a ...
Globe du monde contenant un bref traité du ciel & de la terre.Langres, Jean des Preyz, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page showing an armillary sphere, 3 woodcut folding plates of the solar system, a celestial chart in two hemispheres and a (terrestrial) map of the world in two hemispheres, 4 woodcut maps in the text (including a map of Europe), many astronomical and cosmographical woodcut figures and tables in the text and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. 18th-century half brown sheepskin, brown paper sides.
Globe du monde contenant un bref traité du ciel & de la terre.Langres, Jean des Preyz, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page showing an armillary sphere, 3 woodcut folding plates of the solar system, a celestial chart in two hemispheres and a (terrestrial) map of the world in two hemispheres, 4 woodcut maps in the text (including a map of Europe), many astronomical and cosmographical woodcut figures and tables in the text and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. 18th-century half brown sheepskin, brown paper sides.
GIRAULT, Simon. · 1614
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
92 ll.Rare French 16th-century astronomical, cosmographical and geographical work by Simon Girault. This short treatise, comprising three books presented in the form of a dialogue between two children named Charles and Marguerite, discussing several aspects of heaven and earth...
[Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in “frames” on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth.
[Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in “frames” on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth.
CURTIS, G. W. (compiler). · 1923
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
[48] pp. with 97 photographs.Unique album with 97 photographs, compiled in Rawalpindi (Islamabad) by British Corporal G.W. Curtis during his service as "no. 2 wireless boy" in Waziristan, Pakistan from at least 1923 to around the time of Pink’s War (March to May 1925).In the 1...
Relaçam da viagem, e sucesso que teve a nao capitania Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho. De que era Capitaô Francisco de Mello, vindo da India no anno de 1630.Lisbon, "P. Craesbeeck" [= Antonio Pedrozo Galram?], "1631" [= ca. 1710/20?]. 4to. With woodcut of a ship in heavy seas on the last page, a woodcut basket of flowers on title page and a large woodcut vase of flowers tailpiece. Earlier vellum with a manuscript cantochon in red and black, new endpapers.
Relaçam da viagem, e sucesso que teve a nao capitania Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho. De que era Capitaô Francisco de Mello, vindo da India no anno de 1630.Lisbon, "P. Craesbeeck" [= Antonio Pedrozo Galram?], "1631" [= ca. 1710/20?]. 4to. With woodcut of a ship in heavy seas on the last page, a woodcut basket of flowers on title page and a large woodcut vase of flowers tailpiece. Earlier vellum with a manuscript cantochon in red and black, new endpapers.
CONCEIÇÃO, Frei Nuno da. · 1630
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[8], 47, [1 blank] pp.Rare early 18th-century counterfeit edition of a Portuguese narrative of an Indian voyage, shipwreck and return in 1630. The story is based on the diary of helmsman Luís Alvares Mocarra (cf. p. 2), on board the ship Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho under the...
Noticia da viagem, que fez segunda vez ao estado da India o ... senhor Marquez do Louriçal, e primeiros progressos do seu governo.Lisbon, Luiz Jozé Correa Lemos, 1742. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a Maltese cross on the title-page, a woodcut headpiece and a woodcut decorated initial. Later marbled stiff paper wrappers, new endpapers.
Noticia da viagem, que fez segunda vez ao estado da India o ... senhor Marquez do Louriçal, e primeiros progressos do seu governo.Lisbon, Luiz Jozé Correa Lemos, 1742. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a Maltese cross on the title-page, a woodcut headpiece and a woodcut decorated initial. Later marbled stiff paper wrappers, new endpapers.
MASCARENHAS, José Freire de Monterroio. · 1670
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
24 pp.Report in Portuguese on the peace negotiations in India between the Portuguese and the Sawantwadi state, resulting in the installment of a new Portuguese Viceroy in Goa.Written by José Freire de Monterroio Mascarenhas (1670-1760), the work first provides background infor...
Opera nuova ... tradotta di Latino in volgare, laqual dichiara l’uso del maraviglio so istrumento astronomico da lui intitulato horoscopio. ...Verona, Paolo Ravagnano, 1560. 4to. With Ravagnano’s woodcut emblematic device on the title-page (a hand emerging from a cloud and holding a stalk with three lilies, the whole in an oval in a rectangular scrollwork cartouche, with the motto, “candidio animus”), a folding plate (oblong long folio: 15.5 x 41.5 cm) containing 2 woodcuts (12.5 x 22 cm & 12 cm diameter with the 4.5 cm gnomen making it 14 x 13 cm) designed to be cut up to make the author’s “horoscopio” in the form of a volvelle and the sundial-lunar dial, 3 decorated woodcut initials (pictorial), planetary and zodiac signs, and numerous tables of numerical data. 19th-century(?) boards, covered with block-printed decorated paper (black on white).
Opera nuova ... tradotta di Latino in volgare, laqual dichiara l’uso del maraviglio so istrumento astronomico da lui intitulato horoscopio. ...Verona, Paolo Ravagnano, 1560. 4to. With Ravagnano’s woodcut emblematic device on the title-page (a hand emerging from a cloud and holding a stalk with three lilies, the whole in an oval in a rectangular scrollwork cartouche, with the motto, “candidio animus”), a folding plate (oblong long folio: 15.5 x 41.5 cm) containing 2 woodcuts (12.5 x 22 cm & 12 cm diameter with the 4.5 cm gnomen making it 14 x 13 cm) designed to be cut up to make the author’s “horoscopio” in the form of a volvelle and the sundial-lunar dial, 3 decorated woodcut initials (pictorial), planetary and zodiac signs, and numerous tables of numerical data. 19th-century(?) boards, covered with block-printed decorated paper (black on white).
PADOVANI, Giovanni. · 1512
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[46], [2 blank] pp.The rare first significant publication (extremely rare with the folding woodcut plate) by the Veronese astronomer Giovanni Padovani (ca. 1512-ca. 1590), explaining the use of his “horoscopio”, also known as a nocturnal or a horologium nocturnum, which he pre...
Summa philosophie naturalis ... una cu[m] libro de co[m]positione mundi qui astronomie ianua nuncupari potest ... [at the head of the page:] Primus liber incipit De co[m]positione mu[n]di.Paris, Jean Lambert (colophon: printed by Thomas Kees, 14 November 1513). Small 4to (28 x 20.5 cm). With 55 woodcut illustrations in the text, including 12 northern and 12 southern pictorial constellations with stars. Flexible wrap-around paperboards (ca. 1750?), sewn on 3 tanned leather supports.
Summa philosophie naturalis ... una cu[m] libro de co[m]positione mundi qui astronomie ianua nuncupari potest ... [at the head of the page:] Primus liber incipit De co[m]positione mu[n]di.Paris, Jean Lambert (colophon: printed by Thomas Kees, 14 November 1513). Small 4to (28 x 20.5 cm). With 55 woodcut illustrations in the text, including 12 northern and 12 southern pictorial constellations with stars. Flexible wrap-around paperboards (ca. 1750?), sewn on 3 tanned leather supports.
VENETUS, Paolo Nicoletti [and Restoro d'AREZZO]. · 1429
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[35], [1 blank] pp.First edition of one of the best early attempts to give a scientific account of astronomy, cosmography, geology, meteorology, tides, springs and rivers, by Paolo Nicoletti Venetus (ca. 1369/70-1429), edited by Jean Dullaert of Ghent (ca. 1470-1513). The book...
Observations on the winds and monsoons; illustrated with a chart and accompanied with notes, geographical and meteorological.London, Charles Whittingham, 1801 4to. With 1 folding engraved map of the world depicting all the world-wide seas and waters and several tables printed within the text. Later half calf.
Observations on the winds and monsoons; illustrated with a chart and accompanied with notes, geographical and meteorological.London, Charles Whittingham, 1801 4to. With 1 folding engraved map of the world depicting all the world-wide seas and waters and several tables printed within the text. Later half calf.
CAPPER, James. · 1743
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
XXVIII, 29-234 pp.First edition of a rare geographical and meteorological treatise on the winds and weather in different places around the world, written by James Capper (1743-1825). Capper was a former colonel in the East India Company, but after his return to England, he dev...
Bijdragen tot de kennis van het Rijk van China, voorgelezen in de Algemene vergadering van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, op den 25sten mei 1842.Batavia, [Landsdrukkerij/Drukkerij van het Bat. Genootschap], 1842. 8vo. Half green cloth, marbled sides.
Bijdragen tot de kennis van het Rijk van China, voorgelezen in de Algemene vergadering van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, op den 25sten mei 1842.Batavia, [Landsdrukkerij/Drukkerij van het Bat. Genootschap], 1842. 8vo. Half green cloth, marbled sides.
VINNE, Jan van der. · 1793
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
[2], 62 pp.The text of a lecture by Jan van der Vinne (1793-1870), the vice-president of the Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen at Batavia, on the Chinese Empire. It is, in fact the first lecture held at the beginning of a new period of the Genootschap after...
Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum.Leiden, Conrad Wishoff, 1739. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, woodcut title-vignette, woodcut initials. Contemporary calf.
Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum.Leiden, Conrad Wishoff, 1739. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, woodcut title-vignette, woodcut initials. Contemporary calf.
GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. · 1705
€395.00 ($435.36 | £329.54 | ¥69,522)
[12], 388 pp.First edition of this important manual on pharmacology by the German physician, chemist, vitalist and Leiden professor Hieronymus David Gaubius (Jerome Gaub, 1705-1780). The second enl. and corr. edition was published by the same publisher in 1752.Gaubius was a n...
Materia medica contracta, exhibens simplicia & composita medicamenta officinalia ex magno numero selecta, praestantia atque utilia, munita viribus & dosibus methodoque simplicial deligedi, praeparandi & componendi: destinate pharmacopoeorum praecipue …Leiden, Arnold Doude, 1674. 4to. With a woodcut view of Leiden University’s academy building on the title page (Doude used it as a publisher’s device 1674-1679, replacing an earlier version used 1668-1671) and many printed tables and schemes. Modern red cloth, red morocco spine label with the title in gold.
Materia medica contracta, exhibens simplicia & composita medicamenta officinalia ex magno numero selecta, praestantia atque utilia, munita viribus & dosibus methodoque simplicial deligedi, praeparandi & componendi: destinate pharmacopoeorum praecipue …Leiden, Arnold Doude, 1674. 4to. With a woodcut view of Leiden University’s academy building on the title page (Doude used it as a publisher’s device 1674-1679, replacing an earlier version used 1668-1671) and many printed tables and schemes. Modern red cloth, red morocco spine label with the title in gold.
MARGGRAF, Christian. · 1626
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[8], 252 pp.First edition of a textbook on the making and preparation of medicines, by the German Christian Marggraf (Liepstadt 1626-1687). The second, enlarged edition followed in 1681; the third in 1682.After studying at Leiden University (registered in 1652), Marggraf was a...
De hedendaagsche Albert, of nieuwe beproefde en geoorloofde geheimen...Amsterdam, Gerrit Bom, 1773. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. Later pink paper wrappers.
De hedendaagsche Albert, of nieuwe beproefde en geoorloofde geheimen...Amsterdam, Gerrit Bom, 1773. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. Later pink paper wrappers.
[ALLETZ, Pons-Augustin]. · 1703
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
VII, 108, [4]; [2], 142, [4]; [2], 64, [6] pp.Dutch translation of one of the compilations, reference books and manuals by Pons-Augustin Alletz (1703-1785), a French agronomist. His most famous work, L'agronome, ou dictionnaire portatif du cultivateur was first published in 17...
Cours d’histoire naturelle pharmaceutique, ou histoire des substances usitées dans la thérapeutique, les arts et l’économie domestique.Paris, Imprimerie de Decourchant (printed in the page facing the title-page), 1828. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. Both volumes bound in contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, blind-tooled spines, red morocco spine labels with the title in gold and a gilt-stamped library stamp of the Medical Society, Edinburg, on the top of both spines.
Cours d’histoire naturelle pharmaceutique, ou histoire des substances usitées dans la thérapeutique, les arts et l’économie domestique.Paris, Imprimerie de Decourchant (printed in the page facing the title-page), 1828. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. Both volumes bound in contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, blind-tooled spines, red morocco spine labels with the title in gold and a gilt-stamped library stamp of the Medical Society, Edinburg, on the top of both spines.
FÉE, Antoine Laurent Apollinaire. · 1789
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)
[4], XXVI, [2], 659; VII, 822, [2] pp.Original edition of a well-known manual in which the vegetable and animal materia medica are arranged according to the natural system. Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée (1789-1874) is a French botanist and author of works on botany and mycol...
De ontmantelde apotheker, met de gefopte hoorndrager, blyspel.Gouda, heirs of Lucas Kloppenburg, after 1712. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting the last scene of the comedy and a woodcut title-vignette. Disbound in modern blue paper wrapper.
De ontmantelde apotheker, met de gefopte hoorndrager, blyspel.Gouda, heirs of Lucas Kloppenburg, after 1712. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting the last scene of the comedy and a woodcut title-vignette. Disbound in modern blue paper wrapper.
[GAETE, Hendrik van de]. · 1713
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
[16], 29, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp.One of the issues printed by the heirs of Lucas Kloppenburg in Gouda in the years 1713-1716. The author, Hendrik van de Gaete (1682-1719) is an Amsterdam bookseller, poet and playwright who published several comedies, sometimes of doubtful qual...