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The great pragmatic history of medicine in the final edition overseen by its author

SPRENGEL, Kurt. Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneykunde.
Halle, Gebauerschen Buchhandlung, 1821-1828. 5 volumes bound as 6. 8vo. With 4 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary dark gray paste-paper boards, with letterpress title-labels on spine. [10], 638, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], IV, 762, [2]; X, 613, [3]; IV, 635, [1]; [2], XVI, 481, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [483]-969, [1] pp. Full description
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A catalogue of medicines for sale at the Societas Pharmaceutica in London

STAPHORST, Nicolaus. Officina chymica Londinensis, sive exacta notitia medicamentorum spagyticorum, quae apud aulam Societatis Pharmaceuticae Londin. Praeparantur, & venalia prostant ... Editio tertia juxta exemplar Londini.
Jena, Christoph Cröckerus, 1701. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers over thin boards. [4], 68 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Second edition of Steno’s seminal study of muscle tissue and the formation of fossils

STENO, Nicolaus (Niels STENSEN). Elementorum myologiae specimen: seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1669. With many woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the text and 7 engraved folding plates with figures and tables.
With: (2) HOBOKEN, Nicolaas. Anatomia secundinae humanae, quindecim figuris ad vivum propriâ autoris manu delineatis, illustrata. ... Cum annexo S. Specilegio epistolarum, rem potissimum generatoriam referentium.Utrecht, Joannes Ribbius, 1669. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page portrait of Nicolaas Hoboken by C. Hagens facing the frontispiece and 15 figures on 8 engraved folding plates.
8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, blue edges. [1 blank], [1], 221, [11]; [1], [1 blank], 148, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Treating diseases with poisonous plants, with 4 engraved plates

STÖRCK, Anton von. Libellus, quo demonstratur, stramonium, hyosciamum, aconitum non solum tuto posse exhiberi usu interno hominibus, verum & ea esse remedia in multis morbis maxime salutifera.
Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With 3 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) STÖRCK, Anton von. Supplementum necessarium de cicuta, ubi simul jungitur cicutae imago aere excusa.Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With a folding engraved plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [10], 7-99, [1]; 52 pp. Full description
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Rare first edition of a treatise on the medicines used by surgeons

STOLLS, Maximilian. Lehrbegriffe von den äusserlichen Arzneymitteln, oder deutsche Materia Chirurgica. Angehenden Wundärzten zum Besten übersezt, von Johann Gottfried Essig.
Augsburg, in der Joseph-Wolffischen Buchhandlung, 1789. 8vo. With woodcut printers device on title. Contemporary half white paper over boards covered with blue paper. [16], 190 pp. Full description
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Very rare and interesting work on blood circulation:
the thesis of a promising student of Boerhaave and Van Leeuwenhoek

STRÖM, Christian Michaëlsson. Nova theoria motuum reciprocorum machinae animalis, ex partium organicarum structura & proprietatibus, juxta aeternas motuum leges.
Amsterdam, [heirs of Johannes I] Janssonius van Waesberge, 1707. 8vo. Woodcut vignette on title, full-page engraved plate of the blood circulation of the heart, woodcut headpiece and initials. Contemporary full cal. [8], 84, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Three standard medical works: on the lungs, ear and eye

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicius de respiratione usuque pulmonum. In quo, praeter primam respirationis in foetu inchoationem... Editio altera. Cui subjuncta est D. Alberti Haller....... De Diaphragmatis musculis dissertatio anatomica. Editio tertia.
Leyden, Conrad Wishoff, 1738. 4to. With engraved title by G.W. with device for the study of respiration, 7 woodcuts in text, folding engraved plate by J. Lochmann.
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2. VALSALVA, Antonio Maria. De aure humana tractatus, in quo integra auris fabrica multis novis & iconismis illustrata, describitur: omniumque ejus partium usus indagantur.Quibus interposita esty musculuram ovulae, atque pharyngis nova descriptio, et delinatio. Leyden, Gijsbert Langerak & Joh. Hasebroek, 1735. Title in red and black, 10 folding engraved plates. (14), 143, (13) pp.
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3. IDEMA, P (or Bernardus). Een ontleed en natuurkundige verhandeling van 't oog. Leeuwarden, Tobias van Dessel, 1741. (28), 96 pp.
Contemporary vellum with titles in ink on spine. (14), 95, (1) pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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