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Rare 17th-century description of dracunculiasis, the parasitic infection by the Guinea worm

WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus. Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis veterum. Specimen exhibens novae versionis ex Arabico, cum commentario uberiori. Cui accedit altera, de vermiculis capillaribus infantium.
Augsburg, Theophil Goebel, 1674. 4to (15.5 x 20.8 cm). With the title page printed in red and black, an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait, and 13 engraved plates. 18th-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the author and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. [54], 456, [120] pp. Full description

€ 28,000

First edition printed outside Oxford University, with 6 illustration plates and a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
One of the great books of 17th-century English medicine

WILLIS, Thomas. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore.
The Hague, Arnold Leers, 1674. 12mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, dated 1674, and 6 folding engraved plates of human stomach and intestines. Contemporary(?) vellum, with a red morocco spine label, red sprinkled edges. [40], 330, [9], [5 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

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Medicine & Pharmacy

Rare 17th-century description of dracunculiasis, the parasitic infection by the Guinea worm

First edition printed outside Oxford University, with 6 illustration plates and a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe. One of the great books of 17th-century English medicine

First edition printed outside Oxford University, with 6 illustration plates and a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
One of the great books of 17th-century English medicine