Medicine & Pharmacy

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium trochiscorum, unguentorum, ceratorum, emplastrorum, cataplasmatum, & collyriorum : quorum apud Ferrarienses pharmacopolas usus est : ...
Venice, (colophon: Lucas Antonius Juntas), 1551. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, restored. 296 ll. Full description

[BREAD]. L'amico de' poveri che insegna il vero modo di fare il pan venale col quale possono arricchire i fornaj onesti, intelligenti, e pratici delle regole del loro mestiere, e possono dare un maggior peso di pane ottimo, ben lievitato, e ben cotto alla povera gente.
Florence, Domenico Marzi and company for Luigi Carlieri, 1773. Small 4to in 8s. With an engraving in the text on p. 13 and a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary heavy paper or flexible paperboard wrappers (carta rustica). 42, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme]. Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, ouvrage théorique, historique et à l'ordre du jour, dédié aux gastronomes Parisiens.
Paris, Auguste Sautelet et Cie. (back of title-page: printed by David), 1826 [1825]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut device on both title-pages. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines, marbled edges and endpapers. [2], XIV, [1], 6-390; 442 pp. Full description

BRISSEAU, Michel, and others. Pharmacopoeia Duacena galeno-chymica nobilissima et amplissimi senatus authoritate et jussu munita & edita.
Douai, Jacques-François Willerval, 1732. Small folio (25.5 x 17 cm). With a woodcut of the then current Douai coat of arms (a shield with an arrow and eight drops of blood) on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine, brown title-label. [1], [1 blank], [2], 180, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BRUNFELS, Otto. Epitome ex gravissimis authoribus, totius rei medicae summam complectens, ... congesta: nuper verò emendata et locupletata.
Paris, Guillaume Julian, 1552. 16mo (11.5 x 7.5 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial, 2 vine-leaf ornaments (Vervliet 173 & 169) and paragraph marks. Set in roman and italic types with incidental Greek. Old limp parchment, sewn on 3 cords, blue edges. 104 ll. Full description

BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'Achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1845.
With:
(2) BRUNI, Lorenzo. Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano... offre e dedica nel presente atlante ripristinate nel loro stato naturale le varie deformita che nello spazio di un quinquennio ha avuto a curore nella clinica.
Naples, [Filiatre Sebezio?], 1845.
(3) BRUNI, Lorenzo. Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1844.
(4) BRUNI, Lorenzo. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.
Naples, Ministero di Stato degli affari interni, [1841].
(5) BRUNI, Lorenzo. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, [1842]. 5 works in 1 volume. Super Royal (except ad 1 Demy) 8vo, mostly in 4s. Ad 2: with 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs. Ad 4: with 4 folding lithographs (20 x 24 cm). Ad 5: with 3 lithographs, including 1 folding (19.5 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, shell on shell marbled sides, gold- and black-tooled spine with title in 2nd of 5 fields. 24; [38]; 14, [2 blank]; [4], 24; [2], 43, [1] pp. Full description

[BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel
Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.
With:
(2) [BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. [Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel].
Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.
(3) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried. Programma quo Christ. Ehrenfr. Weigel... fratris dilectissimi Caroli Henrici Bernhardi Weigel... dissertationem inauguralem... publice defendam indicit praemittens historiae baryllorium rudimenta.
Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785.
(4) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried and Karl Heinrich Bernhard WEIGEL. Dissertatio inauguralis sistens experimenta chemica et instrumenta chirurgica emendata.
Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Ad 3 with a folding letterpress dedication page and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. Ad 4 with a folding engraved plate showing surgical instruments and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. 19th-century boards, red title label on spine. [1], [1 blank], [6], 76, [4]; 76, [4]; 28; [1], [1 blank], [4], 50 pp. Full description

[BRUSSELS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. Pharmacopoea auctior, et correctior, jussu nobilissimi, amplissimique senatus Bruxellensis edita ...
Including: Taxa, seu pretium medicamentorum in hac pharmacopoea contentorum.
Brussels, Pierre Hacquebaud, 1671. Folio. Contemporary calf; rebacked with part of the original gold-tooled backstrip laid down. [1], [1 blank], [8], 237, [15] pp. Full description

[BRUSSELS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. Brusselsche apotheek, door het gezag van de magistraat bevestigd, en naar de tweede Latynsche druk in het Nederduitsch vertaalt.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Seggeren, 1775. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing an apothecary shop, the preparation of medicines and a botanical garden, and 2 folding engravings identifying alchemical symbols and measurements. Contemporary wrappers, rebacked. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [16], 277, [15] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. CAMPER, Petrus. [Autograph letter, signed, to Reinier Arrenberg].
Groningen, 2 February 1773. 4to. Brown ink on laid paper, addressed on the outside and with an armorial red wax seal.
With: (2) [PORTRAIT]. [PUJOS, André]. P. Camper, …
[Paris, André Pujos, 1786]. 4to. Mezzotint portrait on laid paper. [1], [1 blank, except for the address]; [1] ll. Full description