Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

DUBOIS, Jacques (Jacobus SYLVIUS), translated by André CAILLE. La pharmacopee. Qui est la maniere de bien choisir & preparer les simples, & de bien faires les compositions: despartie en trois livres ...
Lyon, Louis Cloquemin, 1580. 16mo in 8s (12.5 x 8 cm). With Cloquemins woodcut heart-and-clasped-hands device on the title page ("verbis initur manibus contrahitur, corde conservatur societas") with 4 woodcut headpieces (plus 4 repeats), 2 woodcut tailpieces and 7 woodcut decorated initials (2 or 3 series). Recased in contemporary(?) sheepskin parchment, sewn on 2 recessed supports (formerly on 3 supports, laced through the joints), formerly with 2 pair of ties (now with a light green ribbon marker), with title in manuscript on spine. [26], 686, [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description

DUBOIS SYLVIUS, Jean In methodum miscendorum medicamentorum, quae in quotidiano sunt usu observationes, ex Graecic, Arabibus, & Neotericis.
Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1572. 8vo. With Kervers woodcut device on the title page, depicting a unicorn with the familys arms, and a large cast ornament on the otherwise blank last page, and some woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, with a paper title-label on the spine, remnants of ties. [8], 134, [10] ll. Full description

DUPUIS, Guillaume. De medicamentorum quomodocunque purgantium facultatibus, nusquam anteà neque dictis, neque per ordinem digestis libri duo ...
Lyon, Macé Bonhomme, 1552. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page no doubt made for this edition (showing Hypocrates and Galenus, with motto, "In omnem terram exivit doctrina eorum"), finely executed arabesque woodcut headpieces and numerous woodcut initials with pictorial decoration (4 series, the two largest especially fine). Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. [8], 179, [1] pp. Full description

EYGEL, Antonius. Apolegomena pro urinis humanis, of verantwoordingh voor de menschelicke wateren. Tegen alle kleyn-achters der selver ... Ten tweeden: een beschrijvingh der selver wateren ... Ten derden: een weder-leggingh tegen de schriften der wateren van de heeren Forestus, en Stratenius ...
Amsterdam, Sierick Paulisz for the author, 1672. With an engraved frontispiece.
With: (2) EYGEL, Antonius. Nieuwe genees-konst, of mantissa medicaminum, dat is, toegift van medicamenten, tegen de sieckten, aengewesen zijnde door t menschelick water in sijn drie voorgaande werken, dienende meerendeels voor menschen van 15, of 16 jaren tot 60, of 70.
Amsterdam, Sierick Paulisz for the author, 1673.
8vo. Overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine. [30], 400, [8]; 108, [4] pp. Full description

FABRE, Pierre Jean. Myrothecium spagiricum; sive pharmacopoea chymica, occultis naturae arcanis, ex Hermeticorum medicorum scrinijs depromptis abundè illustrata...
Toulouse, Pierre Bosc, 1646. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the divisional title page of part two, 9 woodcut headpieces, 4 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. 20th-century blind-tooled brown morocco. 448, [22], [2 blank] pp. Full description

FABRICI, Girolamo (Hieronymus FABRICIUS). Pentateuchos cheirurgicum.
Frankfurt am Main, [Zacharias Palthenius for] Peter Fischer, 1592. 8vo. With Palthenius's woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 554, [6] pp. Full description

FABRY, Wilhelm. Aanmerkingen ... rakende de genees ende heelkonst. Bestaande in zes deelen, yder deel in hondert geschiedenissen. Nevens een brief van een wonderlijk Lijf-moeders-scheurzel, daar de vrucht levendig uitgesneden is: beschreven door Michael Doringius: en beantwoort door Fabricius Hildanus.
Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1656. 4to. With full-page engraved portrait of the author and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. 19th-century half calf. [10], 358, [2 blank], 542 [= 540], [32] pp. Full description

[FACETIAE]. Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est, jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tàm lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quàm lectu verè digna & utilia, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata.
[Rostock, Augustin Ferber], 1627. 17 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With general title-page and 17 part-titles, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations. Contemporary vellum. Full description

FACHS, Modestin. Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. ...
Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. With an engraved folding plate with the cross-section of an oven.
With:
(2) HORN, Johann Bernhard & David KELLNER. Synopsis metallurgica oder kurze jedoch deutliche Anleitung zu der höchts nütz und ergätzlichen edlen Probier-Kunst verfasset in XV. Tabellen ...
[Schneeberg], Johann Christoph Weidner, 1690. With 15 tables (1 folding).
(3) KELLNER, David. Wohlangerichtetes aerarium chymicum antiquo-novum, oder alter neue und reichlichst vermehrte oder chymische Schatzkammer ...
Leipzig, printed by Koberstein for Joh. Herbord Kloss, 1702. With woodcut illustrations in text.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine. [20], 185, [9]; 51, [1]; 173, [1 blank]; 69, [7], [3 blank]; 22, 104, [2]; [22], “389” [= 386]; [30] pp. Full description

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description