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The first work to describe potassium acetate

MÜLLER, Philipp. Miracula chymica et misteria medica. Libris quinque enucleta, quorum summam pagina versa exhibet.
[Wittenberg], Laurens Seuberlich for Clemens Berger, 1611. 12mo. With 12 woodcuts of 19 chemical instruments and retorts in the text, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, the title is printed in red and black.
Later paper boards, red sprinkled edges, in a modern burgundy solander box. [24], "189" [=191], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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On British herbs and the American aloe

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
€ 1,750
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Two Hellenistic hexametric poems on antidotes to poisons

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
€ 5,000
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Heated dispute between a Spanish pharmacist and the College of apothecaries

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
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Preventing the spread of dysentery in Harderwijk

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Extract uit het geadviseerde door de stads-doctoren, op resolutie van burgermeesteren schepenen ende raad der stadt Harderwijck, van d. 18. october 1779. ter vergadering overgegeven, om, onder Gods zegen, de grasserende pers-loop, soo veel mogelijk, te praevenieren.
[Harderwijk, Johannes Mooijen?, 1779]. 4to. Bound as sewn. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 475
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Anti-quackery measures

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Gelykheid, vryheid. Publicatie. Het departementaal bestuur van den Rhyn ... doet te weten: ... dat verscheiden lieden, uit vreze voor gestrenge examina, ... zich haasteden, om, vóór de invoerings des geneeskundigen bestuurs, zich, voornamelyk ten platten lande, en in kleine steden, alwaar geen toereikend geneeskundig toeverzicht plaats had, ter uitoeffening der genees- heel- verlos- en artsenymengkunde, neder te zetten ...
Arnhem, Abraham van Goor, 1800. 4to. Disbound. 12 pp. Full description
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