Medicine & Pharmacy

MORT, Jacobus Le. Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.Leiden, Petrus vander Aa, 1688. 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 Vander Aas herald angel device on title-page.
With: MORT, Jacobus Le. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.
Leiden, Petrus vander Aa, 1688. 8vo. With beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils, Vander Aas woodcut herald angel device, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: "Le Mort opera omnia". 14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp. Full description

MORÉNO Y MAÏZ, Thomas. Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l'erythoxylum coca du Perou et la cocaïne.
Paris, A. Parent, imprimeur de la faculté de médecine, 1868. 4to. With a lithographic plate of coca leaves and 7 figures in the text showing the tension on the arteries after ingesting coca in various ways. Side stitched through 2 holes. [8], 90, [2] pp. Full description

MOUTINHO DOS SANTOS, Joaquim. Guia medica para prevenir, e tratar o cholera-morbo offerecida ao provedor, e irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia.
Santos, Typographia commercial de G. Delius, 1855. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame and the front wrapper and the title page show the same decorative device, including medical instruments, books, the profile of a head with a name(?) in Greek letters. Original publisher's green wrappers. 20 pp. Full description

MUNTING, Abraham. De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, eiusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681.
With: (2) IDEM. Aloidarium, sive Aloës Mucronato Folio Americanae Majoris, Aliarumque ejusdem specie historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.[Amsterdam], [Hieronymous Sweerts], 1680.2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimier of Nassau, and 24 finely engraved plates with flowering plants in the Herba, and 8 finely engraved plates with various aloës in the Aloidarium. Modern half green morocco. [28], 231, [1 blank]; 33, [19] pp. Full description

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum.
Venice, Johann Gabriel Hertz, 1707. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 446 [=452], [52]; 162 [=168] pp. Full description

NICANDER of Colophon and Jean de GORRIS. Alexipharmaca. Io. Gorraeo Parisiensi medico interprete.
Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1549. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 70, [1] ll. Full description

NICANDER of Colophon. Theriaca.
Including:
NICANDER of Colophon. Alexipharmaca.
-In Nicander Theriaca scholia auctoris incerti, et vetusta et utilia. In eiusdem Alexipharmaca diversorum auctorum scholia.
Paris, Morelius, 1557. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Each part with its own title-page, with a woodcut caduceus device on all three. Set in roman and Greek types. 17th-century(?) richly gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges; subtly rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. [8], “225”[=215], [1 blank]; “80”[=72] pp. Full description

NOVELLA, Cosme. Al rey nuestro señor. Memorial ... Contiene el hecho; en la causa de la preparacion de la colocynthida.
[Zaragoza, 1613]. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut arms of Philip III of Spain on title-page. Loosely inserted in contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [25] ll. Full description

NUMAN, Alexander. Waarnemingen omtrent de horzel-maskers, welke in de maag van het paard huisvesten.
Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1834. 4to. With 6 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding) by D. Sluyter after H. van Oort. Contemporary stiff grey wrappers. [2], 143, [1 blank] pp. Full description

OOSTERDIJK, Nicolaas George. Praecepta medicinae practicae in usum academicum digesta.
Leiden, Abraham & Jan Honkoop, 1783. 8vo. With a decoration built up from rococo typographic ornaments on the title-page, woodcut headpieces. Contemporary marbled paper over thin boards. [8], 294 pp. Full description