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De venenis in genere, & in specie exercitatio, videlicet eorum natura, & in corpus agendi modo: … Juxta veterum quorundam & recentiorum dogmata, ad solidorum & fluidorum corporis organici leges mechanicas, deducta & explicata.Leiden, Andreas Dyckhuisen, 1707. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, boards covered with sprinkled paper, red spine label lettered in gold.

LINDER, Johannes. · 1678

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

268 pp. [pp. 1-16 with the index missing].Very rare first issue of the first edition of a medical treatise on natural poisons, their antidotes and their applicability in curing some diseases, by the Swedish physician and botanist Johannis Linder (1678-1724) from Wermlandia. Li...

Theatrum sympateticum, ofte Wondeer-toneeel des natuurs verborgentheden. Behelsende een uitstekende oratie over het gebruik des poeders de sympathie, daar in de waarheit zijner werkinge werd ontdekt. Benevens twee waardige vervolgen, van alle zeldzame antipathien en sympathien … door N. Papinus en A. Kirchnerus.Including: PAPIN, Nicolaus & Sylvester RATTRAY. Theatrum sympaticum … Tweede deel. Werdende hier in eerst ... geleert de bereydinge des poeders de sympathie, en desselfs gebruyck in verscheyde soorten van wonden. …Including: KIRCHNER, Athanasius. ’t Groote licht der natuur-kunde: derde deel. Ontdeckende vele vermakelijcke geheymenissen des natuurs, over ’t stuck van antipathie en sympatie. Getrocken uyt e Latijnsche geschriften van ...Amsterdam, Jacob van Royen & Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1681. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, letterpress title-page and 2 divisional titles, folding allegorical plate with seven roundels (“De sympathie is ’t leven van de natuur” (sympathy is the life of nature) and woodcut initials.With: (2) DIGBY, Kenelm. . Nieuwe beproefde en wel ondersochte genees-middelen, ofte zeltsame verborgentheden: met verscheide aardige blanketsels, om de jufferlyke schoonheid te onderhouden. Getrokken uit de gedenkschriften van ... Uit het Fransch vertaalt.Amsterdam, Jacob van Rooyen & Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1680. Woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut decorated initials. 12mo. 2 works in 1 volume. Vellum over boards, spine with the text “Oratie van de poeder de Sympathie”.

DIGBY, Kenelmus. · 1661

€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)

[8], 440, [44]; 280, [6] pp.Fourth edition of the rare Dutch translation of a collection of texts on the “powder of sympathy”, first published in 1661. Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and know...

Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688.With: (2) MORT, Jacobus le. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with a frontispiece engraved by Adriaan Schoonebeek (with an allegorical scene above and an apothecary and others at work below), originally dated 1684, changed to 1688, and Van der Aa’s herald angel device on title page. Ad 2: with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils, Van der Aa’s woodcut herald angel device, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: “Le Mort opera omnia”.

MORT, Jacobus le. · 1684

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp.Two of the most important pharmacological and chemical publications of the Leiden lecturer and future professor Jacobus Le Mort, both in their second, revised editions, both first published in 1684.Jacob Le Mort (1650-1718), a Dutch chemist a...

Pharmacia Galenica & chymica, dat is: apotheker ende alchymiste ofte distilleer-konste. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. [Additional title and imprint on the frontispiece:] Nieu licht der apothekers en distilleerkonst. ... t’Amsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn op ’t Water.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1657. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing the interior of an apothecary’s shop, Van Ravesteyn’s woodcut device on title-page (Elijah and the ravens); 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 339, 343 and 387); woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards.

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. · 1662

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[8], 460, [12] pp.Rare first known edition of a successful apothecary’s manual for students, written in Dutch, mirroring the general knowledge of pharmacology in the middle of the 17th century. The author of this intriguing book long remained unidentified until his initials “I...

Pharmacia Galenica & Chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde Apotheker en Alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. … en verrijckt met een kort Examen der Chirurgie, benevens een tractaet van de kennisse der Droogen. Den vierden druck.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece of the interior of an apothecary’s shop: Het Nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der Apothekers en distilleerkonst. T’Amsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn den […in ink: tienden] druck 16[.. in ink: 1662]; woodcut printer’s device on title; 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 343, 347 and 391); woodcut initials and endpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards with title in ink on spine.

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. · 1590

€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)

[16], 466, [14], 54 pp.The second edition of a successful apothecary’s manual for students, mirroring the general knowledge of pharmacy in the middle of the 17th century. The author of this intriguing book long remained unidentified until his initials "I.B.S.I." (see fol.*3v) ...

A dictionary in Sanscrit and English; translated, amended, and enlarged, from an original compilation, prepared by learned natives for the college of Fort William.Calcutta, printed at the Education Press, 1832. Large 4to. Contemporary half green morocco with marbled sides, gilt edges.

WILSON, Horace Hayman. · 1785

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

X, 982 pp.Second enlarged edition of the first etymological Sanskrit-English dictionary by the English orientalist Horace Hayman Wilson (1785-1860), originally published in 1819. The first edition was compiled from materials provided by native scholars, supplemented with Wilso...

Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait...London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed maps (2 large folding), 20 engraved plates, 3 two-page folding plates, and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary half green morocco, marbled sides, gold-tooled title on spine, marbled edges.

BEECHEY, Frederick William. · 1796

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

XXVI, [1], [1 blank], 472; IV, 330, [1], 331-452 pp.First octavo edition of Beechey's account of his celebrated Pacific voyage, which was preceded by a quarto edition in the same year. It "is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn I...

Des castes Indiennes.Karaikal, 11 April [1743]. 4to (ca. 24 x 18.5 cm). Manuscript written in dark brown ink on beige laid paper. Blue mottled stiff paper wrappers.

[FRENCH INDIA - MANUSCRIPT]. · 1739

€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)

[23], [1 blank] pp.French manuscript, written in Karaikal (French India since 1739), which gives a detailed explanation of the Indian caste system: the author explains in the beginning of the text that the French people are ill-informed about it. To illustrate the Indian caste...

Tafereelen uit eene reis naar Noord-Amerika.Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1818. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides.

SVINYIN, Pavel Petrovic (here Paul SWININ, elsewhere SVIN'IN or SUININE). · 1816

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[4], IV, 127 pp.Very rare first and only edition of the only Dutch translation of a Russian description of the United States of America. The title-page notes that it is translated from the German translation (1816) and the preface notes that the first edition, in Russian, appe...

Vikramorvasi; or Vikrama and Urvasi: a drama. ... With a commentary, explanatory of the Prákrit passages.Calcutta, printed at the Education Press, Circular Road, 1830. Large 8vo. Except for the title-page, the book is entirely in the Prákrit language and set in a single size of Devanagari type. Contemporary half calf.

KÁLIDÁSA. · 1830

€575.00 ($633.75 | £479.70 | ¥101,202)

[4], 122 pp. (numbered in Prákrit).The first Prákrit edition, printed in 1830 in Calcutta, of one of the three dramas we can attribute to the classical Sanskrit poet Kálidása. In five plays, it tells the Vedic love story, founded on a legend related in the Satapatha-Brâhmana, ...

[View of the Taormina theatre ruins (Sicily) with Mount Etna in the distance].[Sicily or Paris], [ca. 1781 or somewhat later?]. 46 x 81 cm (frame 85 x 128 cm). Watercolour with pencil outlines and highlighted with white, laid in on paper pasted on wood.With a later blue and gold passe-partout in a contemporary gilt frame.

[CASSAS, Louis Francois]. · 1756

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

Large watercolour-drawing of the Taormina temple ruins in Sicily, with Mount Etna in the distance, attributed to the French landscape painter Louis-François Cassas (1756-1827), who is best known for his illustrations for numerous travel books of the Levant published in the lat...

A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian surveys, deposited in the map room of the India Office.London, George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode (colophon), 1878. Large 8vo. Contemporary cloth, title in gold on spine.

INDIA OFFICE. · 1900

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

XXI, [1 blank], 672 pp.First and only edition of a catalogue of the material held in the London India Office that was produced by the Indian Surveys for the East India Company. The catalogue was printed by order of her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in council. It is a...

’t Nieuwe examen der chirurgie, na de hedendaagse praktyk. t’ samen gestelt voor de gene, welke hare promotie moeten doen om vry messter te werden, en voor die te lande of te water in den oorlog dienen … Vermeerderd met de Nieuw verbeeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist [by J. Verbrugge].Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1694. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken: “Examen der Chirurgie”, with imprint below (cut short), woodcut title vignettes, initials and tailpieces. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold.

BOUT, Bernardus de. · 1740

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

[8], 390, [10], 96 pp.First edition of a manual for the examination to become a free master surgeon in the country or at sea. Jan ten Hoorn, a publisher of medical literature published 5 more editions to 1740 and he includes a stocklist of his medical books at the end. Also ad...

Praxis medica, sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendoid & curandis morbis. Pars 1-5. Editio tertia, aucta, & accuratissima.London [= Amsterdam?], sumtibus societatis, 1738. 5 volumes bound as 3. Each title-page with a woodcut vignette and a border built up from typographic ornaments. With an engraved oval portrait of Boerhaave as added as frontispiece, pasted to the first fly-leaf.With: (2) Herman BOERHAAVE. Historia plantarum. quae in Horto Academico Lugduni Batavorum crescent cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus desumptis ex ore … Hermanni Boerhaave … Collectis atque in lucem editis ab ***. Pars 1-2. Editio novissima, aucta …12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

BOERHAAVE, Herman. · 1708

€1,100.00 ($1,212.40 | £917.69 | ¥193,605)

[8], 648, [12]; [2], 400, [6]; [2], 458, [2]; [2], 326, [6]; [2], 382, [10] pp; [4], 408, [2], 409-696, [30] pp.Ad 1: Although Boerhave considered Institutiones medicae (1708) his greatest work and it made him famous, his Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (Aphorisms...

Prosperitatis Germaniae. Pars prima [-Pars secunda]. In quâ de vini, frumenti, & ligni concentration, eorumque utiliore, quam hactenus, usu agitur. …Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonnius, 1656-1657. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. · 1656

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[10], 118; [4], 72 pp.First editions of the Latin translation of the first two volumes of Glauber’s work on the natural wealth of Germany - wine, wood, agriculture - and how to improve their exploitation. Volume 2 covers mining. The German edition appeared in 6 volumes (1656-1...

Miraculum mundi, oder Außführliche Beschreibung der wunderbaren Natur, Art, und Eigenschafft des grosmächtigen Subjecti, von den alten menstruum universale oder Merrcurius philosophorum genandt, dardurch die Vegetabilien, Animalien, und Mineralien gar leichtlich in die allerheilsambste Medicamenten, und die unvolkommene Metallen realiter in beständige und perfecte Metallen können verwandelt werden. [Volume 2:] Miraculi mundi ander Theil. Oder Dessen Vorsängst ...Amsterdam, [Johannes Janssonius] (vol. 1) & Johannes Janssonius (vol. 2), 1653-1660. With: (2) [GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph]. Explicatio tractatuli, qui miraculum mundi inscribitur, nuper a Joh. Rud. Glaubero editi, tam plana quam solida, in rei veritatis testimonium, & artes amorre prodse quentium utilitatem.Frankfurt am Main, for Thomas Matthias Götze, 1656. 2 volumes, the first includes 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Ad 1: later vellum, manuscript title on spine. Ad 2: modern marbled paper over boards, orange morocco spine label with title in gold.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. · 1653

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

[1], [1 blank], 105, [5 blank ]; [20], 113, [1]; 62 pp.Second (volume 1) and fourth (volume 2) edition of a classic alchemical work on a miraculous remedy: a panacea for all diseases, infirmities and other ailments that Glauber calls his “Alkahest”. Some of Glauber’s contempor...

Arca thesauris opulentia, sive appendix generalis omnium librorum hactenus editorum, … in decem centurias distributum [= prima centuria]. [Vol. 2:] Opulenti thesauri, et arcae thesaurariae ... centuria secunda.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1660-1661. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Later boards covered with marbled paper, later printed title on spine.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. · 1668

€900.00 ($991.96 | £750.84 | ¥158,404)

190, [2]; 149 pp.First edition of the Latin translation of the first edition in the original German: Reicher Schatz- und Sammelkasten oder Appendix generalis, published by Janssonius in the same year. It summarizes the contents all of Glauber’s works published to that date, in...

Grouwelijke medicijnse moortmiddelen van aderlaten, koppen, purgeren, clisteren, juleppen, en verswakkende hertsterckingen, waer door d’onbedachtsame genees- en heelmeesters (geen rechtschapene practisijns synde) soo veele duysent onschudige menschen jammerlijck van’t leven ter dood helpen. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaeld.Including: - Den hervormden apotheker, voorstellende een bequaem project, hoe en in wat voor gestalte de hedendaeghsche apotheecken billyk te reformeren en naer een rationali medendi methodo, die thans by alle verstandige en conscientieuse medicijns aengenomen is, te formeren waren. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.- Diaetetica rationalis; dat is, op onloochenbare vaste principien, gesonder verstandts, en waerer experientie welgegronde levens-ordre, waer door een ieder mensche in sijnen standt, sijn gesondtheyt bewaeren, en een leven, vry van veelerley swaericheden, hier op aerden leyden kan. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1690. With: (2) HUBER, Ulrik (editor). Specimen philosophiae civilis et studendi bonis libris. Continet excerpta Aristotelica e Libris ad Nicomachum, Cartesii de Affectibus librum, Institutionem reipublicae, cum excerptis Ovidianis. Ulricus Huber rationem instituti in praefatione reddit.Franeker, J. Gyselaer, 1686. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 8vo. Ad 1: with 3 title pages, each with one of 2 woodcut decorations, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.

GEHEMA, Jan Abraham von. · 1647

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[20], 140; 169-538, [14] pp.Ad 1: First and only edition of three very rare medical and pharmacological treatises published together, by the German physician Jan(sz) Abraham Gehema (1647-1715). Gehema studied in Leiden where he settled as a physician before returning to Berlin...

Apolegomena pro urinis humanis, of verantwoordingh voor de menschelicke wateren. Tegen alle kleyn-achters der selver ... Ten tweeden: een beschrijvingh der selver wateren … Ten derden: een weder-leggingh tegen de schriften der wateren van de heeren Forestus, en Stratenius …Amsterdam, Sierick Paulisz for the author, 1672. With an engraved frontispiece.With: (2) EYGEL, Antonius. Nieuwe genees-konst, of mantissa medicaminum, dat is, toegift van medicamenten, tegen de sieckten, aengewesen zijnde door ’t menschelick water in sijn drie voorgaande werken, dienende meerendeels voor menschen van 15, of 16 jaren tot 60, of 70.Amsterdam, Sierick Paulisz for the author, 1673.8vo. Overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine.

EYGEL, Antonius. · 1621

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[30], 400, [8]; 108, [4] pp.First editions of two very rare works on the observation of the human urine (“piskijken”) which is the author describes as very profitable and necessary to diagnose many illnesses. The second work adds medications for the illnesses diagnosed. Both w...

Le denovement des intrigues du temps par la response au livret intitué, Lettres et autres pieces curieuses sur les affaires du temps. Fait par le S.I.P.P.B.Brussels, 1673.With: (2) [WICQUREFORT, Abraham de (attributed to)]. Remarques sur le discours du commandeur de Gremonville, fait au Conseil d’Estat de sa Maiesté Imperiale. The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1673.(3) [AUBUSSON de la FEUILLADE, Georges]. Harrange en forme de panegyrique presentée au Roy par Mr. l’Archevesque d’Ambrun Evesque de Metz, en son passage à Metz, le 30, Juillet 1673.Metz, Jean Antoine, 1673.(4) [CHARLES II, King of England]. Declaration du Roy d’Angleterre sur la mediation offerte par Mr. L’Electeur de Mayencé, faite à Whitehal. Le 15. Feuvrier. Anno 1673.4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[LISOLA, François Paul de; Daniel Johannes CAMPRICHT]. · 1668

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[1], 1-15, 17-222, [2]; 47, [1 blank]; [8]; [4] pp.Ad 1: Second edition of a highly interesting collection of letters by some of the key-figures on the European political stage during the years 1668-1672, mirroring the often changing coalitions: from the Triple Alliance conclu...