Medicine & Pharmacy

PARÉ, Ambrosius. De chirurgie, ende alle de opera, ofte wercken. (...) Noch is op het nieuws hier by ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe der deelen des menschelijcken lichaems, in 't Latijn beschreven door D. Joh. Fernelium: ende in 't Nederduyts overgeset door D. Sebastiaen Egbertsz.
Amsterdam, Gerrit Willemsz, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a large woodcut vignette on the title page, more than 300 woodcut illustrations in the text, and several woodcut initials, the title is printed in red and black. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition. Including: FERNELLI, Johannes. Beschryvinghe der deelen des menschelijcken lichaems. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards. [16], 940, [12]; 42, [2] pp. Full description

PAULUS OF AEGINA (edited by Otto BRUNFELS and Wilhelm KOPP). Pharmaca simplicia, Orthone Brunfelsio interprete.
Including: De ratione victus Gukielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, September 1531.
With:
(2) VALLA, Giorgio. De simplicium natura liber unus.
Strasbourg, Heinrich Sybold, (colophon:) August 1528.
(3) ODO OF MEUNG (misattributed to Aemilius MACER). De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani co[m]mentariis, ...
Including: STRABO, Walafrid. Ad haec. Strabi Galli Poetae et theologi clarissimi, hortulus vernantissimus.
Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon:) Johann Faber, 1530.
(4) MARBOD OF ANJOU (with notes and additions by Georg PICTORIUS). De lapidibus pretiosis encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen.
[Freiburg im Breisgau, Johan Faber], 1531. 4 editions containing 6 works, in 1 volume. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm). Ad 1: with a finely executed woodcut on the title page repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 20 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration plus about 20 repeats and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in an Aldine-style italic with preliminaries in Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 2: with the title in a woodcut architectural frame, and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in a Venetian-style roman type with frequent Greek printed in the fore edge margins. Ad 3: with a space left for a manuscript initial at the opening of the main text, with a printed guide letter (not filled in). Set in an Aldine-style italic type with incidental Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 4: with a woodcut initial with pictorial decoration. Set in an Aldine-style italic. Blind-tooled pigskin (Freiburg or vicinity? ca. 1570?) over tapered wooden boards. With 2 engraved brass fastenings and a 19th-century paper spine label. [12], 86, [1 blank], [1]; [104]; [4], 108; 55, [1] ll. Full description

PEDEMONTANUS, Alexius (Girolamo RUSCELLI) (Johann Jakob Wecker, translator). De secretis libri sex mira quadam rerum varietatereferti, ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primum translate per Joannem Jacobum Weckerum.
Lyon, Guilelmus Rovellius, 1561. 8vo. Later vellum. 344 [= 342], [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PFANN, Johann. Biblische Emblemata und Figuren welche in den zweijen verneurten Stuben, dess Hospitals zum heiligen Geist in Nürmberg allen Krancken zu sonderm Trost anstatt der Schrifft sind vorgemalet worden.
[Nuremberg], 1626. Oblong 8vo (13.5 x 18 cm). With engraved title page (4to and partly folded) and 16 engraved emblems within varying baroque frames, with manuscript text below. Contemporary sprinkled paper wrappers. [1], 16 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PHARMACOLOGICAL]. [Medicinal recipes for sexual ailments].
[Germany?, ca. 1857]. Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm). Manuscript in Latin and German. Contemporary half tan cloth. 33, [35], [32 blank] pp. Full description

[PHARMACOPEIA - THE NETHERLANDS]. Pharmacopoea Batava.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805. Large 8vo. With 2 folding tables. Prize-book of the Latin School at Haarlem: polished mottled calf with gilt panel of the city-virgin of Haarlem holding the coat-of-arms of the city as her shield; underneath the motto: Vicit vim virtus, on both sides, ornamental gilt border along the edges of both sides, spine gilt with orange title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, green ties. Complete with the dedication of the Latin school, presenting the book to Jacob Warning, dated Haarlem, 17 Dec. 1817 and signed by the rector and teachers of the school, bound in before the first fly-leaf. [2], L, 304, 34, [13] pp. Full description

[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Oesterreichische provinzial-Pharmakopee...
Vienna, Johan Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1776. 8vo. With a woodcut coat-of-arms on the title-page and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, light brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges. [10], 384, [18] pp. Full description

[FRANCE - PHARMACOPOEIA] Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea Gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a facultate medica Parisiensi anno 1818.
Paris, Hacquart, 1818. Large 4to. With a woodcut vignette and monogram on the title-page. Contemporary half black sheepskin. [8], CCXXII, 406 pp. Full description

[PHARMACY - RECIPES]. Nieuwe Nederduitsche apotheek. Op eene klaare en verstaanbaare wyze onderwys gevende omtrent de beste dagelyks gebruikt wordende geneeskundige bereidingen; waar in inzonderheid de scheikundige bewerkingen, volgens de gronden der vermaarde heeren Boerhave, Geoffroy en andere beroemde mannen, zoo duidelyk beschreeven worden, als tot nog toe in geene andere apotheeken geschied is.
Leiden, Pieter van der Eyk, 1753. 8vo. Modern orange paper wrappers. [10], 440, [38] pp. Full description

PIEDMONT, Alexis of (Girolamo RUSCELLI). De secreeten ... inhoudende seer excellente ende wel geapprobeerde remedien, tegen veelderhande krancheden, wonden ende andere accidenten: met de maniere van distilleren, perfumeren, confituyren maecken, te verwen, coloeuren ende gieten.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurensz., 1636. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern sheepskin. 260, [12]; 164, [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description