Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

BATE, George and James SHIPTON. Pharmacopoeia Bateana, in qua octingenta circiter pharmaca, pleráque omnia è Praxi Georgii Batei …
London, Samuel Smith, 1688. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [12], 130, 12, [2], 16 pp. Full description

BATE, George and James SHIPTON. Pharmacopoea Batheana. Ofte den apotheek van de heer Georgius Bath ...
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1698. 12mo. With an engraved title-page by Jan Luyken. 19th-century marbled wrappers. 6, [8], 242, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BATTUS, Carolus. Secreet-boeck van vele diversche en heerlicke consten in veelderleye materien ...
Including: Aenhanghsel van verscheyden sonderlinge secreten, in 't maken, bereyden en bewaren van alderhande wijnen, als ook verwen[!], incten ende 't gene de verruw-konst en schrijf-konst aengaet.
Haarlem, Thomas Fonteyn, 1650-1651. 12mo. With a vignette built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, a divisional title page for the appendix, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, modern endpapers. 490, [1], [1 blank], 73, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BATTUS, Carolus. Secreet-boeck van veele diversche en heerlijcke konsten in veelderley materien, met veel remedien tegen de innerlijcke en uytterlijcke gebreken der menschen. ... Verrijckt met verscheyden secreten van wijnen, verwen ende schrijf-konsten.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. 573, [3] pp. Full description

BATTUS, Carolus. Het secreet-boek vol heerlijke konsten. Als van de hooftstoffen in elks gebruik, vande gebreken, siekten en qualen der menschen, van tamme en wilde dieren ..., bloemen, kruiden en saden ..., van olien en salven te bereiden, van distileren en andere weetenschappen; met een aenhangsel verrijkt, uyt een groot getal Latijnsche, Italiaansche, Francoische, Hoog- en Neder-duitsche autheuren vergadert.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1694. 12mo. With a woodcut vignet on title-page. Contemporary vellum with boards partly folded over the edge, with manuscript short-title on spine. 573, [3] pp. Full description

BESSON, Jacques. Art et moyen parfaict de tirer huyle et eaux, de tous medicaments simples & oleogineux.
Paris, pour Galiot du Pré, 1573. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 16 woodcut illustrations in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Early to mid-19th-century half marbled calf. "31" [= 32] ll. Full description

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Schat der gesontheyt. Tweede druck; Met veersen verçiert door Iacob Cats.
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Matthias Havius, 1638. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With engraved frontispiece behind the typographical title page, 2 full-page engraved frontispieces for books 1 and 2 of the first part, and 25 engraved illustrations in text by C. van Queboren after J. Hessels. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [12], 778 pp. Full description

BEVERWIJCK, Johan van and Jacob CATS. Wercken der genees-konste.
Amsterdam, (widow of) Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1672. 3 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 28 engravings in volume one, 29 engravings in volume two (including one on the title-page) and 20 engravings (including one on the title-page) plus 1 woodcut in volume three. Contemporary vellum. [18], 252; [8], 127, [1], 328, 48; [8], “278”[=276], [12] pp. Full description

[BEVERWIJCK, Jan van]. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.
[Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch, 1642?]. Small 8vo. With Van Esch's woodcut Maid of Dordrecht device on the title-page, a woodcut tail-piece, a woodcut factotum and 2 woodcut decorative initials. Wrappers (ca. 1800?) made from laid paper coloured green and glazed on the outer surface. 152 pp. Full description

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.
With: PLEMPIUS (PLEMP), Fortunatus. Verhandeling der spieren. ...
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Loymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.
Small 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an emblematic engraving in the preliminaries, 5 engravings of herbs and plants, including 3 with views of Granada, Orange and Cairo, 2 anatomical engravings in the text and 11 full-page engraved anatomical plates. Original overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine, red edges. [44], 487, [7]; [6], 176 pp. Full description