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Low Countries / Medicine & Pharmacy

Handbook on the plague, with symptoms and suggested herbal treatments

PUTMAN, Eduardus and Abraham Lenertsz VROLINGH. Putmans manuael, dat is een kleyn pest-boecxken ... gecorrigeert ende vermeerdert ...
Antwerp, Marcelis Parijs, 1663 (colophon: 1662). 8vo. Later boards, covered with decorated paper. [2], 71, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)

Dutch rural pharmacist's manuscript recipe book, with veterinary and human medicaments

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

€ 1,800

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Gelderland & Overijssel Manuscripts & Documents Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Netherlands

Very rare publication of a dispute between doctors and apothecaries in Brussels

[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

€ 800

Belgium Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Dedication copy van den auteur, winning the second prize of a contest
offered by the Amsterdam Geneeskundig Genootschap

THOMASSEN A THUESSINK, Evert Jan. Prijsverhandeling over de vraag, voorgesteld door het geneeskundig genootschap, onder de zinspreuk Servandis civibus, in hoe verre zou men, by gebrek aan de apotheek, uit kelder en keuken de vereischte geneesmiddelen, ook tegen de zwaarste ziekten en kwaalen, zo uit- als inwendig, kunnen bekomen; mits uitzonderende de volgende middelen, kina, kwik, opium, staal, delfzuren, rhabarber en ipecacoanna?
Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, 1789. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled paper sides, brown morocco spine label lettered in gold. 266 pp. Full description

€ 400

Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Important contribution to our knowledge of medicine on voyages to the Americas

TITSINGH, Abraham (editor). Geneeskonst der heelmeesters, tot dienst der zeevaart.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor, 1752. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary marbled wrappers, with a 19th-century paper label on the spine with the author and title in manuscript. 8, 662 pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Caribbean Islands Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Middle America Naval History Netherlands Travel & Voyages South America

A ship’s pharmacy for the homeward passage to the Republic

[VOC - MEDICINE - BROADSIDE]. Catalogus der medicamenten voor het retour-schip.
Batavia, in 's Compagnies medicinale winkel, [before 1738]. 1 broadside, and 1 booklet. Ca. 53 x 42 cm. With: [BAUD, J. C.]. Proeve van eene geschiedenis van den handel en het verbruik van opium in Nederlandsch Indië.
1853. The booklet with grey paper wrappers. 79-220 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) VOC

Rare 19th-century work on medicine, with folding plate

[VROLIK, G and N.C. de FREMERY]. Nederlandsche Apotheek.
Utrecht, C. van der Post, 1841. 8vo. With a folding engraved plate, and the coat of arms of the Netherlands on the title page. Half red leather, gold-tooling on spine. xviii, 308 pp. Full description

€ 500

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