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Liber secretorum ... De virtutibus herbarum: & animalium quorundam. Eiusdemq[ue] liber De mirabilibus mundi: & etiam de quibusdam effectibus causatis a quibusdam animalibus &c.(Colophon: Venice, Johan Baptist Sessa, 12 February 1502). Small 4to (21 x 15.5 cm). With a large woodcut portrait of the author at his desk. Gold-tooled maroon morocco (ca. 1870/90?) for James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk (1827-1905), gilt edges.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS (pseudo). · 1504

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

16 ll.Rare early edition (one of perhaps four or five early editions with the main text set in a roman type) of two works written ca. 1300 by an unidentified follower of Albertus Magnus concerning the extraordinary properties (magical, astrological, medicinal, etc.) of 16 plan...

De halosantho seu spermate ceti vulgo dicto, liber nunc primum in lucem abditus.Zürich, [Jacob Gessner], 1566. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a woodcut initial. Modern paper boards, early marbled edges.

CORDUS, Valerius. · 1515

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[3], 37 ll.First and only edition of a treatise on certain salts sometimes found in crystaline "efflorescences" from the surface of the sea, which Dioscorides and Galen had recommended for the treatment of skin diseases. The Hessian doctor and botanist Valerius Cordus (1515-15...

Siamese hymnal.Phetchaburi (Thailand), Samuel Gamble McFarland, 1876. 8vo. With Western round-head letterpress music notation. Set in Thai type with incidental roman. This copy with the letterpress presentation slip on blue paper tipped in (from McFarland and his wife), for people who contributed to the project. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, probably bound for presentation.

MCFARLAND, Samuel Gamble (editor). · 1998

€7,000.00 ($7,715.27 | £5,839.86 | ¥1,232,030)

148 pp.Very rare first edition (first issue) of McFarland's Thai (Siamese) hymnal, one of the first books printed by the mission press at Phetchaburi (Petchabury) in Thailand, with the 86 hymns selected by donors who contributed at least five dollars for the production of the ...

Pharmacopea Bateana, na qual se contem quasi oytocentos medicamentos tirados da pratica de Jorge Batea … escrita pela ordem alphabetica, Traduzida de Lati mem Portuguez … por D. Caetano de S. Antonio …Lisbon, Officina real Deslandesiana, 1713. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Calf over boards.

BATE, Georgius. · 1704

€675.00 ($743.97 | £563.13 | ¥118,803)

(8), 310 pp.First and only edition of the translation into Portuguese of the famous Pharmacopoeia Bateana by D. Caetano de Santa Antonio, the author of the first Portuguese Pharmacology, the Pharmacopeia Lusitana (1704, 17112), used in teaching pharmacy to practitioners until...

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea sive praescriptorum chilias ... Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.With: (2) FRAUNDORFFER, Philippus. Tabula Smaragdina Medico-Pharmaceutica … Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.(3) CHRISTIANUS, Wolfgang. Thesaurus Ludovicianus, sive compendium materiae med. ...Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.(4) JACKSON, Josephus. Enchiridion medicum practicum, sive tractatus de morborum praxis …Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. The 4 title-pages with identical woodcut vignettes. Vellum over thin boards, manuscript title on spine.

FULLER, Thomas · 1654

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

XXXII, 302, [2 blank]; 184; 79, [1 blank]; 112 pp.One of many editions in the original Latin, some printed in England and some on the continent, of the very popular Pharmacopoeia extemporanea by the English physician and doctor Thomas Fuller (1654-1734), first published in 170...

Pharmacopoeia Bateana, in qua octingenta circiter pharmaca, pleráque omnia è Praxi Georgii Batei …London, Samuel Smith, 1688. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.

BATE, George and James SHIPTON. · 1608

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

[12], 130, 12, [2], 16 pp.The first edition of the famous and influential Pharmacopoeia Bateana a nationally as well as internationally authoritative pharmacology consisting of the medical recipes and prescriptions collected by the British physician George Bate (1608-1668). Ba...

Pharmacopoeus synopticus. Plerasque medicaminum compositions, ac formulas, eorumque dextram tam chemicam quam Galenicam conficiendi & componendi methodum exhibens. Quin et singular medicinae atque pharmaciae studiosis hac in arte precipuenecessaria demonstrans. Editio secunda, correcta …Utrecht, François Halma, 1696. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing the interior of an apothecary shop by Sluiter after J.G., Halma’s woodcut device, head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary paper over thin boards.

BARCHUSEN, Joannes Conradus. · 1666

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

[16], 250, [6] pp.Johann Conrad Barchusen (1666-1723) was a pharmacologist, chemist, physician. At the University of Utrecht, he was the first person to teach chemistry as a specific subject (not just as part of medicine). He published four textbooks on chemistry and two on me...

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chilias, in qua remediorum elegantium & efficacium paradigmata ...Amsterdam and Lausanne, François Grasset, 1761. 8vo. With title-vignette, headpieces composed of typographical elements, woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label, red edges.

FULLER, Thomas. · 1702

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

42, 486 pp.One of many editions of the very popular Latin Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, first published at London in 1702 and in the Netherlands from 1709, when the Wetsteins published the first Amsterdam edition. It contains remedies for numerous ailments, from recipes for Anti...

Pharmacopoeia Bateana, seu pharmaca è praxi Georgii Batei, ... excerpta, cum viribus & dosibus annexis. Nec non Arcana Goddardiana; & Orthotonia medicorum observata: item Tabula posologica; atque appendix ad Pharmacopoeiam Bateanam, ex autographo eximii auctoris. Cum indice morborum, curationum, &c. Huic tandem novissimae edition accessit Jacobi Le Mortii chymia vindicata, & comparata, philosophia medica, atque theoria hominis, & morborum.Venice, Giovanni Gabriele Hertz, 1703. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece after Adriaan Schoonebeeck. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.

BATE, George. · 1608

€780.00 ($859.70 | £650.73 | ¥137,283)

[8], 337 pp.First edition published in Italy (apparently the second outside London), of the Latin Pharmacopoeia Bateana, an internationally authoritative collection of pharmacological recipes and prescriptions compiled posthumously from the papers of the British physician Geor...

Apotheek der Oostenrijksche staaten.Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1780. Large 8vo (21 x 12.5 cm). Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[AUSTRIA]. JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Anton von STÖRCK and Johann Jakob de WELL. · 1700

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

[1], [1 blank], [6], 309, [35] pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation of the pharmacopoeia for the Habsburg Monarchy, published as part of the medical reforms instigated by Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772), and based on the second edition of 1775.With the owner's ins...

Pharmacopoea Gandavensis nobilissimi senatus jussu renovata: adjunctae sunt variae adnotationes criticae & instructivae... ejusdem urbis pharmacopoeo.Ghent, Louis Lemaire, 1787. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spine.

BAVEGHEM, Petrus van. · 1758

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

[1], [1 blank], [10], 192 pp.Rare first and only edition of the commentary on the most recent edition of the Ghent pharmacopoeia, which had been published a year before. The author, a pharmacist from Ghent, constantly critiques and ridicules the person responsible for the revi...

Ricettario Fiorentino nuovamente compilato e ridotto all'uso moderno diviso in due parti.Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. Large 4to (28 x 21 cm). With engraved illustration on title-page, a decorated engraved initial, and a few woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century sheepskin parchment, manuscript title on spine.

[RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. · 1498

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

VII, [1 blank], 350, [1], [1 blank] pp.Last edition of the Nuovo ricettario, "a milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature" (Cowen & Helfand), emanating from the guild of Florence physicians and pharmacists and first published in 1498. This pharmacopeia appeared in ...

Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea Gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a facultate medica Parisiensi anno 1818.Paris, Hacquart, 1818. Large 4to. With a woodcut vignette and monogram on the title-page. Contemporary half black sheepskin.

[FRANCE - PHARMACOPOEIA] · 1748

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

[8], CCXXII, 406 pp.First edition of the first national French pharmacopoeia and at the same time the ‘first national pharmacopolia of importance...’ (LaWall p. 483), ordered by the King in substitution for the 1748 edition of the official Paris pharmocopoea which was consider...

Pharmacopoea Gandavensis nobilissimi senatûs monitu concinnata, ejusque jussu edita.Ghent, Joannis Meyer, [1756].With: (2) [GHENT - TAXA]. Ordonnantie van heer ende weth der stad Gend op den taux der drogue ende medicamenten raekende de pharmacie van de apothecarissen der gemelde stad.Ghent, Jan Meyer, [1757]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with a tulip in 5 of the 7 compartments, red edges.

[GHENT - PHARMACOPOEIA]. · 1755

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

[1], [1 blank], [14], 274, [30]; 54, [2] pp.Ad 1: Unrecorded first issue of the rare third edition of the Ghent pharmacopoeia, the first to call itself a "pharmacopoea" (instead of "antidotarium") in the title.This copy differs slightly from all others recorded in that it cont...

Pharmacopea Lusitana reformada methodo pratico de preparar os medicamentos na fórma Galenica, & Chimica.Lisbon, Monastery of São Vicente de Fóra, 1711. Small folio (29 x 21 cm). With engraved arms as fronstipiece. Modern sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[PORTUGAL – PHARMACOPOEIA]. SANTO ANTONIO, Caetano de. · 1704

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

[28], 494, 29, [1 blank] pp.Rare second edition of the first Portuguese pharmacopoeia (first published in 1704), by the friar D. Caetano de Santo António (d. 1730), an apothecary of the Monastery of Santa Cruz of the city of Coimbra, who upon publication of the second volume w...

Pharmacopoea auctior, et correctior, jussu nobilissimi, amplissimique senatus Bruxellensis edita ...Including: Taxa, seu pretium medicamentorum in hac pharmacopoea contentorum.Brussels, Pierre Hacquebaud, 1671. Folio. Contemporary calf; rebacked with part of the original gold-tooled backstrip laid down.

[BRUSSELS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. · 1605

€395.00 ($435.36 | £329.54 | ¥69,522)

[1], [1 blank], [8], 237, [15] pp.Second, revised and enlarged edition of the Brussels pharmacopoeia. Brussels had begun discussing plans to establish a Collegium Medicum ca. 1605, but failed to do so. A 1636 plague, however, incited city magistrates to compile a pharmacopoeia...

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chilias, in qua remediorum elegantium & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes fere medendi intentiones accommodata, candidade proponuntur.Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1731. 8vo. Title in red and black with woodcut device. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, red edges, marbled endpapers.

FULLER, Thomas. · 1702

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

[32], 382, [34] pp.The eight edition (Blake, p. 163) of the very popular Latin Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, first published at London in 1702 and in the Netherlands from 1709, when the Wetsteins published the first Amsterdam edition. It contains remedies for numerous ailments, ...

Pharmacopoeia Bateana, quâ nongenta circiter pharmaca, pleraque omnia è praxi Georgii Batei … excerpta … cum viribus, & dosibus annexis. … Huic accesserunt Arcana Goddardiana, item Orthotonia medicorum observata: et Tabula posologica ... Cum indice morborum, curationum &c. Curâ J.S. Pharmacopoei Lond. Editio quarta cum appendice ex autographo eximii authoris nunc primum desumpta.Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1709. 8vo. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, blue sprinkled edges.

BATE, George. · 1702

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

[8], 240 pp.The first true Amsterdam edition (calling itself the fourth Latin edition, but apparently ignoring the 1702 Frankfurt and 1703 Venice editions) of the famous Pharmacopoeia Bateana, an internationally authoritative collection of pharmacological recipes and prescript...

Pharmacopoea Batheana. Ofte den apotheek van de heer Georgius Bath ...Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1698. 12mo. With an engraved title-page by Jan Luyken. 19th-century marbled wrappers.

BATE, George and James SHIPTON. · 1608

€2,850.00 ($3,141.22 | £2,377.66 | ¥501,612)

6, [8], 242, [3], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a translation into Dutch of medical recipes collected by the British physician George Bate (1608-1668), originally published as the Pharmacopoeia Bateana in 1688. Bate had been personal physician to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and...

Pharmacopoeia Bateana, quâ nongenta circiter pharmaca, pleraque omnia è Praxi Georgii Batei … excerpta … cum viribus, & dosibus annexis. … Huic accesserunt arcana goddardiana, item orthotonia medicorum observata: et tabula posologica ... cum indice morborum, curationum &c. curâ J.S. Pharmacopoei Lond. Editio quinta cum appendice ex autographo eximii authoris nunc primum desumpta.Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1719. 8vo. Title-page in red and black.Contemporary calf.

BATE, George. · 1709

€395.00 ($435.36 | £329.54 | ¥69,522)

[8], 240 pp.The second Wetstein edition (calling itself the fifth Latin edition) a page-for-page reprint of the first Wetstein edition of 1709, which called itself the fourth, of the famous Pharmacopoeia Bateana an internationally authoritative collection of pharmacological re...