Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

RHUMEL (RHUMELIUS), Johann Pharamund. Medicina spagyrica oder spagyrische Artzneykunst. In welcher I. Compendium Hermeticum, … II. Antidotarium chymicum, … III Jatrium chymicum, … mit Hinzuthuung Pharmacopoea chymica und Herbarii Hermetica zusammen gelesen, und in gewisse Ordnung gebracht. [Engraved title-page:] Medicina spagyrica tripartita.
Frankfurt, Johann Hüttner, 1648. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece by Sebastian Furck (with his monogram at the foot), including portraits of Hermes Trismegistus and Arnaldus de Villa Nova. Contemporary vellum. [60], 769, [23] pp. Full description

RHYNE, Willem ten. Verhandelinge van de Asiatise melaatsheid, na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen.
Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1687.
With: (2) BEINTEMA VAN PEIMA, Joannes Ignatius Worp. Tabacologia, ofte korte verhandelenge over de tabak, desselvs deugd, gebruyk, ende kennisse: waar door aangeweesen wordt een wegh om lang, vroolijk, ende gesond te leeven.
The Hague, Levijn van Dijck, 1690. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an ornament on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, the manuscript author on the spine. [18], 181, [1 blank]; [12 (of 16)], 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. Ricettario fiorentino di nuovo illustrato.
(Colophon:) Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1623. Folio. With an elaborate architectural engraved title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in text and a woodcut device above the colophon. 19th-century vellum. [12, last 2 pages blank], 296, [48] pp. Full description

RÜFF (RUEFF), Jacob. 't Boeck vande vroet-wijfs.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1633. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page and 35 woodcut illustrations in text, several full-page. Contemporary vellum. 8 pp. 9-"74" [=70], [4] ll. Full description

RULAND, Martin. Curationum empyricarum & historicarum, in certis locis & notis personis optimè expertarum, & ritè probatum, centuriae decem. Quibus adiuncta de novo eiusdem authoris medicina practica; cum indice rerum omnium uberrimo.
Including:
Medicina practica recens et nova, continens omnes totius humani corporis morbos, per alphabeticum ordinem collectos: ...
Appendix de dosibus, seu justa quantitate, ac proportione medicamentorum compositorum omnium quae hodie officini parata extant: ...
Rouen, Johannis Berthelin, 1650. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and 2 divisional title pages, each with the same woodcut device. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 794, [13], [1 blank]; 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALA, Angelo. Ternarius Bezoarticorum ou trois souverains medicaments Bezoardiques, contre tous venins et empoisonnements tant externes que internes: corruption de sang, & autres humeurs.
Leiden, Govert Basson, 1616. 4to. With engraved allegorical title-page in architectural setting with Andromachus and King Mithridates flanking the title. Modern vellum. [28], 91, [1] pp. Full description

SCARLATINI, Ottavio. Homo et eius partes figuratus & symbolicus, anatomicus, rationalis, moralis, mysticus, politicus, & legalis, collectus et explicatus cum figuris.
Augsburg & Dillingen, Johann Caspar Bencard, 1695. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37 x 23 cm). With a finely engraved emblematic frontispiece by the Augsburg engraver Leonhard Heckenauer (1655-1704), 2 title-pages with the same large engraved brooding chicken emblem and 42 engraved emblems in decorative cartouches in the text (plate size mostly 14 x 13 cm, but that on p. 232 of vol. 1 3.5 x 8.5 cm) perhaps also by Heckenauer. Contemporary vellum. [52], 342, [44]; [28], 249, [29] pp. including the frontispiece. Full description

SCHÖNBORN, Samuel. Manuale medicinae practicae Galeno-chymicae accessere purgantia. Secundum humores peccantes disposita.
Strasbourg, Eberhard Zetzner, 1657. 12mo. With engraved title-page. Modern boards. [8], 328, [20], [4 blank] pp. Full description

SCHOON, Theodorus. Defensio medica ofte den doctor van de nieuwe mode Schoon, naakt vertoont, nevens syne kueren, tot des selfs verdedigingh, tegens de frivole snapperyen der plamoters: wegen syn E. weergalooze tractaat, geintituleert, Den apotheker in 't hembd. Door een beminnaar der waarheyt en rechtzinnige geneeskunde.
The Hague, Gillis van Limburg, 1696.
With: (2) SCHOON, Theodorus. De apotheker in 't hembd, of de wederspannige knegt tegen syn meester.
The Hague, Engelbregt Boucquet, 1696. 8vo. Modern black marbled stiff paper wrappers, red sprinkled edges. 38, [2]; [18], 52, [2] pp. Full description

[SOPHIE, Jacques]. Noodighe op-rechtinghe van 't collegie de medecyne, opentlyck bewesen aen d'inwoonders der stadt van Brussel, met 't verhael van alle swarigheden daer-overgeresen, ende weder legginge van d'op-sprake, daer-tegen onglanghs voor ghewendt.
Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels, 1660. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut on the last page. [6], 101, [1] pp. Full description