Medicine & Pharmacy

IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (and Jacob MANTINO, translator). Avicennae quarta fen primi libri de universali ratione medendi: nunc primum. m. Iacob Mantini medici hebrei: opera Latinate donata.
(colophon:) Venice, Lucantonio Giunti, 8 April 1530. 8vo. With Giunti's printer's device on the title page (a Florentine lily with the L. A. initials). Later vellum with more recent end leaves. 60 ll. Full description

[IBN SINA (AVICENNA)]. ODDIS, Oddus de (Oddo degli ODDI). In primam totam fen primi libri canonis Avicenn[a]e dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in lucem edita, illustrata, & completa assiduo labore, & longo studio Marci Oddi medici eiusdem filii.
Venice, Paolo and Antonio Meietti, 1575. 4to. With woodcut device on title-page, a woodcut headpiece, 3 large and 17 smaller woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut decoration (plus 1 repeat). Contemporary limp vellum, with manuscript title on spine. [8], 499, [33] pp. Full description

JACOBS, Heyman. Het schat der armen. Oft een medecijn boecxken, dienstelijck voor alle menschen, ... Op een nieu oversien, verbetert, ende vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, [Cornelis Lodewijksz. vander Plasse?], printed by Frans Pels, 1634. 8vo. Modern boards covered with marbled paper. [4], 177, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[JACOBSZ, Heyman]. Schat der armen, of huismedicyn boekje van veelerhande medicamenten, om met kleine kosten zyn eigen doctor te zyn, en velerleye ziektens te genezen. Benevens eene aanwyzing, hoe men de gezondheid lang bewaren kan. ...
Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749.
With: (2) SIMONS, Guillaume. Den troost der armen; behelzende lichte en souvereine remedien, tegen verscheide ziekten, wonden, gezwellen, en andere kwalen des lichaams van den van den mensch ...
Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749.
2 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 8vo. Title-page of ad 1 in red and black and one ornamental tail-piece on p. 207. Both works with woodcut initials and small ornaments on both title-pages. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title label on spine. [8], 211, [1]; 48 pp. Full description

JAMET, C. L. Mémoire sur l'art du dentiste, adressé à les ministres de l'instruction publique, de l'agriculture, du commerce et de la justice, et à M. Orfila, doyen de la Faculté de Médecine.
Paris, the author, 1845. Small 8vo. Modern boards, morocco spine-label with gold lettering. 32 pp. Full description

JARRIN, Guillermo A. The Italian confectioner; or complete economy of desserts, according to the most modern and approved practice. ... New edition, revised and enlarged.
London, John Ebers & Co. (back of title-page: printed by William Clowes), 1829. 12mo. With lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. [2], VIII, [2], IX-XXX, 240 pp. Full description

JOHN XXI, Pope. Thesaurus pauperum Petri hispani pontificis romani, philosophi ac medici doctissimi, de medendis morbis humani corporis liber: experimenta particularia per simplicia medicamenta ex probatissimis autoribus, & propriis observationibus collecta, continens.
Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1576. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, Egenolffs woodcut burning heart device below the colophon, 3 woodcut arabesque tailpieces, and 3 woodcut decorated initials (3 different series). Contemporary limp vellum, faded manuscript title on spine. 112, [7, last 3 pages blank] ll. Full description

JOHN XXI, Pope. Thesaurus pauperum Petri Hispani pontificis Romani, philosophi ac medici dictissimi, de medendis morbis humani corporis liber: experimenta particularia per simplicia medicamenta ex probatissimis autoribus, & propiis observationibus collecta, continens.
Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1578 8vo. With title-page in red and black, Egenolffs woodcut burning heart device below the colophon, 3 woodcut arabesque tailpieces, and 3 woodcut decorated initials (3 different series). With the main text in italic type but the preface in roman. Modern half sheepskin. 112, [5] ll. Full description

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

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