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Japanese plants depicted for the first time in the West

KAEMPFER, Engelbert (Sir Joseph BANKS, ed.). Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit.
London, [Library of the British Museum], 1791. Folio (42 x 26.5 cm.). With 59 etched plates, (8 are double-page), by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine. [4], 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 38,000
Floras & General Botany Japan & Far East VOC
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Best and only folio edition of an encyclopedic work of eccentric genius on magnetism

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientiis & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: ...
Rome, Biagio Diversin and Zanobio Masotti (printed by Vitale Mascardi), 1654. Folio. With engraved frontispiece by F. Valentius, letterpress title page printed in red and black with engraved double publisher's device, full-page engraved plate with the portrait of Emperor Ferdinand IV, 34 mostly full-page engraved illustrations, 215 woodcut illustrations and about 50 letterpress tables. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [32], 618, [28] pp. Full description
€ 17,500
Astronomy & Cosmography Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Navigation Optics & Perspective Physics & Chemistry
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Best-seller responsible for the spreading of the ideas on magnetism in Germany & the Netherlands

KLUGE, Carl Alexander Ferdinant (F. VAN DER BREGGEN, transl.). Proeve eener voorstelling van het dierlijk magnetismus als geneesmiddel. Uit het Hoogduitsch met eenige bijvoegselen door F. van der Breggen.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1812. 8vo. With an engraved title-page including an allegorical scene engraved by W. van Senus showing Asklepios and Hypnos chasing Death away from a sick man. Modern half vellum, marbled sides, new endpapers. [4], 551, 50 pp. Full description
€ 950
Alchemy Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century)
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Boerhaave's lesson how to cure an uterine tumour at the patient's sickbed

KOCH, Christian Andreas. Affectum in libris et praxi rarissimum ab Hermanno Boerhaave in nosocomio Lugduno-Batavo.
Leiden, Philippus Bonk, 1738. 4to. With a full-page plate of a human body part in formaldehyde and an engraved printer's device on the title-page. Also with some woodcut initials and headpieces. Modern half calf. [6], 22, [1 blank], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Detailed and fascinating practical manual on animals harmful to people and their livestock and crops,
with 3 engravings showing more than 100 animals, especially insects

[KRAFFT, Abraham Friedrich]. Der sowohl Menschen und Viehe grausamen Thiere, schädlichen Ungeziefers und verderblichen Gewürmer gäntzliche Ausrottung.
Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Buggel, 1709-1712. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a folding illustrated engraved title-page and a folding letterpress title-page, and a larger folding engraved plate in volume II. Contemporary but not uniform vellum. [22], “699” [= 697], [23]; [38], 944, [48] pp. plus 2 folding letterpress title-pages and the 3 engravings. Full description
€ 4,500
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Faunas & General Zoology Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)
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Detailed and lavishly illustrated memoirs of travels in the Caribbean

LABAT, Jean-Baptiste. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America.
Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. 4 volumes bound as 2. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 11 folding engraved maps and plans, and 83 full-page plates. Contemporary polished half calf. [2], 18, 350; [1 blank], [1], 404; [2], 235, 254; [1 blank], [4], 200, 167, [32] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Faunas & General Zoology Gastronomy Latin America Middle America Slavery South America Technology Travel & Voyages South America West Indies
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French edition of "The modern cook" - one of the great culinary classics of the 18th century -
by the chief cook of the Dutch Stadtholder William IV

LA CHAPELLE, Vincent. Le cuisinier moderne, qui apprend à donner toutes sortes de repas, en gras & en maigre, dune manière plus délicate que ce qui en a été écrit jusquà present; divisé en cinq volumes (...)
The Hague, for the author ["Aux dépens de lauteur"], 1742. 5 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With the title page of each part printed in red and black, 13 large folding engraved plates, of which 1 has been printed on 4 attached leaves and is exceptionally large (ca. 28 x 150 cm), 5 folding printed text-leaves, and a woodcut armorial headpiece.
Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 (vols. 1 and 2) or 4 (vol. 3) supports laced through the joints, red edges. [12], 261, [1 blank], [15]; [4], 258, [14]; [4], 288, [16]; [4], 313, [1 blank], [20]; [10], 346, [13] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Gastronomy
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With a description of the first successful symphysiotomy

LA COURVEE, Jean-Claude de. De nutritione foetus in utero paradoxa.
Danzig, G. Förster, 1655. 4to. With an engraved title. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title, author, and year of publication on the spine, a single fillet border on both boards. [22], 254 pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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First edition of “the first actual dispensatory”, with 271 numbered medicines

LARGUS, Scribonius and Jean RUEL (editor). De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528. Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats, and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 44). Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment. [9], [1 blank], 31, [5] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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