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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 calf, ribbed, gold-tooled spine with red morocco label.
FULLER, Thomas · 1702
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[32], 382, [34] pp.One of many editions (the eighth according to the title-page) 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 reme...
Manuale medicinae practicae Galeno-chymicae accessere purgantia. Secundum humores peccantes disposita.Strasbourg, Eberhard Zetzner, 1657. 12mo. With engraved title-page. Modern boards.
SCHÖNBORN, Samuel. · 1608
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[8], 328, [20], [4 blank] pp.Second(?) edition of a rare manual on Galenic medicine, written by Samuel Schönborn (1608-1664), physician at Danzig (Gdansk). The main part of the work lists various diseases, aches and ailments, followed by several ingredients for medicines. The ...
Novum … dispensatorium, hoc est, pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio: quam ab ipso olim auctam, nunc à quamplurimis mendis expurgatam in lucem edimus.Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1563. 12mo. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine reinforced with white paper.
CORDUS, Valerius. · 1546
€4,850.00 ($5,345.58 | £4,046.19 | ¥853,620)
[24], 444 pp.Early edition (the second printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi) of the first official city pharmacopoeia, first published posthumously in Nürnberg in 1546 with an appendix by Jaques Dubois (1478-1555), also known as Jacobus Sylvius. The city of Nürnberg adopted the first ...
Ordinancie, statuyt ende policie gemaect byden coninck onsen aldernadichsten Heere, op tfeyt vande contracten vande asseurancien ende versekeringen in dese Nederlanden. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1571. 4to. With armorial woodcut on the title page. Modern vellum.
[PHILIP II, King of Spain]. · 1570
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
15, [1 blank] pp.Rare royal decree on marine insurance addressed to the Council of Brabant, replacing the decree of 27 October 1570. In 1569 the Duke of Alfa took a radical measure by banning all marine insurance. "This "provisional" decree of 31 March 1569 was abolished by an...
Hippocrates chimicus, qui novissimi viperini salis antiquissima fundamenta ostendit. …With: (2) TACHENIUS, Otto. Antiquissime Hippocraticae medicinae clavis, ... Leiden, Felix Lopez De Haro and Adrianus Severinus, 1671. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With newly engraved pharmaceutical title-page with a portrait of Hippocrates. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with modern endpapers.
TACHENIUS, Otto. · 1610
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[48], 190, [2]; [24], 202, [14] pp.Rare third edition, with a newly engraved title-page, of Tachenius’s widely used work on chemistry and medicine. Together the Hippocrates chimicus and the Antiquissime Hippocraticae medicinae clavis form the complete works on chemistry and me...
Ricettario fiorentino di nuovo illustrato.(Colophon:) Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1623. Folio. With an elaborate architectural engraved title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in text and a woodcut device above the colophon. 19th-century vellum.
[RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. · 1498
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[12, last 2 pages blank], 296, [48] pp.17th-century edition of the Nuovo ricettario, "a milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature" (Cowen & Helfand), which emanated from the guild of physicians and pharmacists of Florence. "It embodies a list of approved drugs and ...
Methodus praescribendi formulas remediorum. Cum adjuncto materiae medicae systemate.Amsterdam, Casparus Commelinus, 1665. 12mo. With engraved title-page, showing the interior of a pharmacy, woodcut device on title-page and letterpress folding table. Contemporary vellum.
MOREL, Pierre. · 1627
€700.00 ($771.53 | £583.99 | ¥123,203)
[36], 578, [6], [6 blank] pp.Very rare second edition printed in the Netherlands of a work on medicines prescriptions by Pierre Morel. It is divided into two sections, the first dealing with different types of medicines and when to prescribe them, distinguishing between medici...
[Engraved title page:] Pharmacopoea regia Galenica et chymica. [half-title]: Opera tribus tomis distincta: I. pharmacopoea regia galenica II. pharmacopoea regia chymica III. tractatus de theriaca & tractatus de vipera.Comprising: (1) CHARAS, Moyse. Pharmacopoea regia Galenica.(2) CHARAS, Moyse. Pharmacopoea regia chymica.(3) CHARAS, Moyse. Historiam naturalem animalium, plantarum et mineralium, theriacae andromachi compositionem ingredientium, cum experiments circa viperam.Geneva, Joannis Ludovici Du-Four, 1684. 3 works published as 1. 4to. With an engraved general title page, engraved author’s portrait, 6 engraved plates and 3 engraved folding plates. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.
CHARAS, Moyse. · 1618
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[11], [1 blank], 496; [8], 449[=451], [1 blank], [28]; [4], 275, [1 blank] pp.Reissue of the first Latin edition of a pharmacopoeia compiled by the French apothecary Moyse Charas (1618-1698). The pharmacopoeia begins with an extensive introduction to ancient (Galenic) and mode...
Statuts de la Faculté de medecine en l’université de Paris, avec les pieces justisicatives de ses privileges & les droits & soûmissions à elle deubs par les apothicaires & chirurgiens.Including:- Pieces justificatives des priviliges de l’université de Paris appartenans à la Faculté de medecine.- Arrests et sentences contre les empiriques & les medecins non approuvez par la Faculté de Medecine de Paris.- Reglemens en faveur de la Faculté de medecine de Paris, ontre le premier medecin du roy, pour la reception des apoticaires & des chirurgiens és villes, bourgs & lieux où il n’y a point de jurez en la prevoste & vicomte de Paris.- Pieces concernans les apoticaires, et la visite des drogues.- Reglemens pour la visites des boutiques& pour les examens & receptions des apoticaires-epiciers du roy, privilegiez suivans la cour, sous la charge de monsieur le Grand Prevost de l’Hôtel.- Arrestes, sentences et contracts d’entre la Faculté de medecine de Paris, & le premier barbier du roy, & la communauté des maistres chirurgiens - barbiers & jurez de Paris…- Arrests portans defenses d’enlever les cadavres sans permission du doyen de la faculté de medecine de Paris, de faire anatomie qu’en la presence d’un docteur de ladite faculté, aux officiers de justice de prendre aucuns droits pour l’enlevement desdits cadavres, & à l’executeur de la haute justice d’exiger plus grande somme que de trois livres.- Arrests pour la renvoy au parlement de Paris des instances d’entre la Faculté de medecine en l’université de Paris & le premier barbier du roy.- Arrests faisans defenses d’imprimer aucuns livres de medecine, de chirurgie ou autres sans l’approbation de la Faculté de medecine de Paris.Paris, François Muguet, 1672. 4to. With a few woodcut headpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
[PARIS UNIVERSITY - FACULTY OF MEDICINE]. PUYLON, Denis. · 1672
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
56, 26, 111, [1 blank], 4, 20, 56, 22, [2 blank], 115, [1 blank], 43, [1 blank], 10, [2 blank], 16, [4], 16 pp.Collection of laws, privileges and jurisprudence relating to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris up to 1672. Most concern the publication of certain bo...
Aphorismi, ad mentem ipsius, artis usus, & corpis mechanismi rationem expositi.Paris, Guillelmum Cavelier, 1724. 2 volumes. 12mo. With a woodcut device on title-page and a tailpiece on the last page. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
HIPPOCRATES (BOQRAT). · 1724
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[2], xl, [4], 316; [4], 317-“601” [=591], [33] pp.18th-century edition of Hippocrates’ Aphorisms in Greek and Latin, printed in 1724 in Paris. Hippocrates, in the Islamic tradition known as Boqrat, where he is often referred to as “the first codifier of medicine”, is often nam...
Hippocrates chimicus, qui novissimi viperini salis antiquissima fundamenta oftendit ...Hannover, Thomas Heinrich Hauenstein, 1668.With: (2) TACHENIUS, Otto. Antiquissimae Hippocratiae medicinae clavis manuali experiential in naturae fontibus elaborate, quaper ignem & aquam inaudita method, occulta naturae, & artis, compendiosa operandi ratione manifesta fiunt, dilucidè aperiuntur. Seneca in epistola.Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrod, 1669.2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut device on title-page and a woodcut endpiece on last page. Contemporary vellum.
TACHENIUS, Otto. · 2001
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[40], 270, [1]; 286, [2] pp.Ad 1: second edition of Tachenius's popular work on Hippocratic chemistry. Hippocrates, in the Islamic tradition known as Boqrat, where he is often referred to as "the first codifier of medicine", is often named together with Galen, and their works ...
Examen omnium electuariorum, pulverum, et confectionum.Venice, Vincent Valgrisi, 1548. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and a larger version on the last page. Later stiff paper wrappers.
BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. · 1536
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
140, [2] pp.First edition of an important work on various medications, including powders. A second edition appeared one year later, printed in Lyon. It is written in the form of an imaginary dialogue on medicine between the author and senex, an old man. Brassavola used the dia...
In methodum miscendorum medicamentorum, quae in quotidiano sunt usu observationes, ex Graecic, Arabibus, & Neotericis.Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1572. 8vo. With Kerver’s woodcut device on the title page, depicting a unicorn with the family’s arms, and a large cast ornament on the otherwise blank last page, and some woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, with a paper title-label on the spine, remnants of ties.
DUBOIS SYLVIUS, Jean · 1500
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[8], 134, [10] ll.Rare first edition of a pharmaceutical work by Jean Dubois Sylvius (ca. 1500-1576), describing everyday medicine as found in the works of the ancient Greeks and Arabs. It gives recipes for different medicines and the attributes ascribed to the medicines and h...
Examen omnium trochiscorum, unguentorum, ceratorum, emplastrorum, cataplasmatum, & collyriorum : quorum apud Ferrarienses pharmacopolas usus est : ...Venice, (colophon: Lucas Antonius Juntas), 1551. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, restored.
BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. · 1500
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
296 ll.First edition of a work with five treatises by Brasavola, covering ointments, bandage, an eye salve and medication in the form of pills. The Italian botanist and physicist Antonio Musa Brasavola (1500-1555), was an expert on the works of Galen and was heavily influenced...
Collectaneo pharmaceutico divido em duas partes, nas quaes se acharáõ as melhores perguntas, e respostas, e algumas eleiçoens de simples, com suas explicaçoens ao texto de Mesue, tiradas dos melhores autores antigos, e modernos da arte pharmaceutica. Obra utilissima para se examinarem os novos professores da mesma arte.Porto, Antonio Alves Ribeiro Guimaraens, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine.
SODRÉ, Antonio Martins (pseudonym of Antonio DOS MÁRTIRES). · 1735
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[32], 188, [4 blank] pp.Very rare second edition of a Portuguese textbook on pharmacology, written as a series of questions and answers to prepare students in medicine for their examinations, first published in Coimbra in 1735. The first part of the book is mainly concerned wi...
De medica materia libri sex.Lyon, Thibaud Payen (Theobaldus Paganus), 1546 (colophon: 1547). 16mo. With a woodcut device on the title page and some woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century calf, rebacked with original gold-tooled backstrip laid down.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius. · 1546
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[30], 543, [147] pp.Rare pocket edition of Jean Ruel's translation into Latin of Dioscorides's standard work on pharmacology, the most important botanical book up on to the 16th century. This is the first issue with the date on the title page saying 1546, colophon 1547. Diosco...
Nauwkeurige voyagie door Italiën, Switserland, &c. Behelsende veele aanmerkenswaardige, curieuse, en tot noch toe ongehoorde saken, welke in geen Reys-beschrijvingen aangetekend zijn.Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1687. 4to. With woodcut decoration on title-page and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern multi-coloured decorative boards.
BURNET, Gilbert. · 1643
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
[1], [1 blank], 182, [13], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a work on travels through Europe, undertaken and written by Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715). Burnet was a Scottish historian, philosopher, and later Bishop of Salisbury. In 1685 Burnet left Great-Brit...
The hermit: or, the unparallel’d sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea...London, printed for J. Wren, J. Jefferies and J. Fuller, 1751. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece and engraved map. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold fillets and red morocco title-label on spine.
[LONGUEVILLE, Peter]. · 1727
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
XII, 263, [1] pp.Rare third edition of a popular account of an imaginary voyage and robinsonade, written by Peter Longueville. The first edition was published in 1727, and "became an enormously popular work, rivalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, of which it is possibly the best i...
Novum Testamentum Syriacè...Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1664 (engraved title-page “1663”). With: (2) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Lexicon Syriacum, continens omnes N.T. Syriaci dictiones et particulas...Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.(3) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Notae criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum... Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an architectural title-page, a woodcut vase of flowers on the letterpress title-page and decorations built up from typographic ornaments. With woodcut decorated initials and other decorations built up from typographic ornaments throughout the volume. Set in roman, italic and Syriac types, with incidental Greek and Hebrew. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - SYRIAC]. GUTBIER, Aegidius. · 1823
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[32], “606” [= 604]; [16], 146, [50]; 55, [1] pp.First edition of by far the best edition of the Syriac New Testament published before the 19th-century, edited by Aegidius Gutbier, which remained the standard Syriac text until Samuel Lee's 1823 edition. For the first book (the...
De Neederlandsen hof, beplant met bloemen, ooft en orangerijen; ... Den tweeden druk.With: (2) OOSTEN, Hendrik van. Register van alle de soorten der voornaamste vrugten, ... Dito een register van alle de saaden, behoorende tot de moestuinery. ...Leiden, “voor den uitgeever” [= Hendrik van Oosten], sold by Johannes Du Vivié and Isaac Severinus, 1703. Small 8vo & large 16mo. With an engraved frontispiece after Jan Goeree by P. Sluyter, and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.
OOSTEN, Hendrik van.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[1 blank], [7], 286, [2 blank]; [2 blank], [6], 55, [1 blank] pp.Second, greatly expanded edition of a popular instruction book for the planting and cultivation of flowers and fruit trees and the tending of a greenhouse, especially intended for young people and first published...