Medicine & Pharmacy / Veterinary Medicine

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

BOSSCHE, Guilielmo vanden. Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et eorum medica utilitas exactè & luculenter tractantur. Cum iconibus eorum, ad vivum delineatis.
Brussels, Ioannis Mommart II, 1639. 4to. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a larger one on the final page, and 80 woodcut illustrations in text (a few with the monogram I.C.I. of Cristoffel Jaeger (1596-1653)). 18th-century calf, with red morocco title-label; rebacked with original backstrip laid down, modern endpapers. [16], 422 [= 434], [20] pp. Full description

CHABERT, Philibert. Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1782. 8vo. With woodcut crowned French royal coat of arms on title-page and a woodcut headpiece (signed "B."). 19th-century(?) half tanned, mottled sheepskin. 109, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CLUTIUS, Theodorus (Dirk Outgaertsz CLUYT). Van de byen, haer wonderlijke oorspronk, natuur, eygenschap ... Item hoe men de byen profijtelijck opvoeden en regeeren sal. Noch: Wat nuttigheyt dat men van honnich en was kan krijgen ...Including: (2) Meesterye voor de paarden, om te weten alle de secreten, alsoo men die gebruyckt by den maerschalk des keysers ende eertz-hertogen keyser Carolus de vijfde. ...
Amsterdam, widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1705. 2 works in 1. 8vo. Modern vellum over boards. [12], 218, [22]; [42] pp. Full description

[INDIAN CARE OF HORSES]. Shalihotra Samhita. [= Encyclopaedia of the physician Shalihotra].
Rajasthan, Northwest India, 19th century. 32 x 17 cm. Hindi manuscript on paper, illustrated with 159 miniatures. Black script with important words and headings in red; borders illuminated in red, green, yellow, blue and purple, leaves ruled in red. Indian blue floral print cotton with flap and binding cord. [1 blank], [29], [1 blank], [25], [1 blank], [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description

NUMAN, Alexander. Waarnemingen omtrent de horzel-maskers, welke in de maag van het paard huisvesten.
Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1834. 4to. With 6 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding) by D. Sluyter after H. van Oort. Contemporary stiff grey wrappers. [2], 143, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PINTER VON DER AU, Johann Christoph. Neuer, vollkommener, verbesserter und ergäntzter Pferd-Schatz.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Philipp Andrea for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved folding plates (with figures numbered 1-40). 19th-century half calf. [2], 456, [8] pp. Full description

[RECIPE BOOK - TWENTE]. [Recipe book].
[Twente, ca. 1865]. 4to. with many added notes. Contemporary half calf. [ca. 300] pp. Full description

VEGETIUS, Publius Flavius Renatus. Digesta artis mulomedicinae.
Naples, [1470-1490]. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (28.5 x 19 cm). Illuminated manuscript on paper, written by the scribe Ippolito da Luna. Refined 16th-century foliation in Arabic numerals to upper right corners, beginning with the title-leaf. Ruled in light brown ink for 28 lines per page, written in dark brown ink in a meticulous and very experienced Roman humanist hand by a scribe who identifies himself in the colophon as Hippolytus Lunesis. Index and table of contents from fol. 112 added later by an experienced 16th century scribe. Catchwords throughout. ustification: 18.5 x 14 cm, rubrics in red, each paragraph introduced by a red two-line Lombard. Watermark: a ram's head/skull with eyes and ears in a circle throughout, not identified (not recorded in Piccard). Contemporary annotations in Latin, manicula in the margins and at the end of the manuscript, perhaps by a 16th-century hand, apparently modifications and additions by a practicing veterinarian; a few annotations by the very erudite scribe himself, some of them with textual conjectures and amendments to the text of the model. Pagination in upper right added together with the table of contents from fol. 112v to lower pastedown by a very experienced scribe, possibly dating from the 16th century, added by a later owner. With: (2) [IDEM]. Curis boum epithoma ex diversis auctoribus.
Naples, [ca. 1470-1490].
Original, contemporary dark brown calf over wooden boards with blind tooling, roll-stamp decoration and ornamental gold stamps from the workshop of Masone di Maio (Naples), three raised bands, with the title lettered in gold on the front board. Stored in custom cloth box with a morocco spine label lettered in gold. 113 [of 114] ll. Full description