Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy after 1700

ABEL-RÉMUSAT, Jean Pierre. [Autograph letter, signed, revealing his work for deaf mutes to a critic].
[Paris], 20th June 1825[?]. 1 leaf (20 x 12.6 cm). In French. [1] p. text. Full description

ADAMS, George. Verhandeling over het zien, verklaarende kortlijk den aart van het zien, en het zamenstel van het oog; ten dienste van menschen, wier oogen zwak of ongesteld zijn; stellende hen in staat om een juist denkbeeld van de waare gesteldheid van hun gezicht te maaken, geevende de behoedmiddelen daar voor op, beneevens zekere regelen, om te weeten of men eenen bril noodig hebbe, en hoe dien als dan te kiezen, zonder dat hij het gezicht benadeele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met aanmerkingen verrijkt door H. Aeneae.
Amsterdam, H. Gartman, W. Vermandel, J.W. Smit, 1792. 8vo. Large folding engraved plate with 8 images concerning optics such as cross-sections of the human eye, camera obscura, spectacles etc. Contemporary stiff sprinkled wrappers. [8], 174, [2] pp. Full description

ADLER, Marcus & Herman. Les dents artificielles comprenant 30 vignettes.
Paris, chez les auteurs (Brussels, printed by Ch. Vanderauwera; Paris, bureaux), 1874. Large 8vo. With 30 wood-engraved illustrations in the text (a few nearly full-page), several printed in 2 colours (pink and black). Original publisher's wrappers. 64 pp. Full description

[ALLETZ, Pons-Augustin]. De hedendaagsche Albert, of nieuwe beproefde en geoorloofde geheimen...
Amsterdam, Gerrit Bom, 1773. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. Later pink paper wrappers. VII, 108, [4]; [2], 142, [4]; [2], 64, [6] pp. Full description

ALMEIDA MARTINS COSTA, Domingos de. Do diagnostico das diversas formas clinicas do mal de Bright - These de concurso ...
Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Academica, 1879. 8vo. With 2 woodcut illustrations and a full-page letterpress table of medical data. 20th-century marbled boards. [4], 94 pp. Full description

ALPINUS, Prosper and Jacob de BONDT. Medicina Aegyptiorum. Accessit huic editione ejusdem auctoris liber de balsamo ut et Jacobi Bontii medicina Indorum. Editio nova.
Including:
(2) ALPINUS, Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.
Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1718.
(3) BONTIUS, Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.
Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1718.
(4) ALPINUS, Prosper. De rhapontico.
Leiden, ex officina Boutesteiniana, 1718.
Leiden, ex officina Boutesteiniana, 1718-1719. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black, 7 engravings (1 folding, 5 full-page, 1 in the text), divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette, 18 decorated woodcut initials, 13 woodcut headpieces, and 12 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [24], 325, [47]; [4], 3-44, [4]; 109, [2], [1 blank]; 25, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description

AMY, Joseph. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives.
Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1752. 6 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 6 folding woodcut plates, and 8 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; a series of 3 large folding engraved plates on the "Empire of Copper" (1x signed "Le Brun inv. et f."), 6 handcoloured woodcut plates of which 4 (large) folding in ad 2; a hand coloured woodcut dedication, and 2 folding woodcut plates in ad 3. With: (2) IDEM. Suite du livre intitulé Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes (...) avec trois dissertations ...
Ibid., idem, 1754.
Bound before ad 1 and 2: (3) IDEM and [François THIÉRY]. Nouvelles fontaines domestiques approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Première édition./ Question de medecine.
Ibid., J.B. Coignard and A. Boudet, 1750.
(4) [BROADSIDE]. Filtroirs militaires, marins et domestiques.
[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside/ advertorial leaflet, ca. 240 x 140 mm.
(5) [BROADSIDE]. Instruction générale et sommaire, pour la conduite des nouvelles fontaines.
[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside, ca. 250 x 140 mm.
Bound after ad 2: (6) BERTHIER, Joseph. Projet d'une pompe publique pour la ville de Paris.
(Colophon:) Paris, Chardon, 1769.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges. VIII, 72, 46; LXXXII, 332, [4]; 48, 61, [9], 72, 24; 2; [1], [1 blank]; 3-15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ANCELOT, Abbé. Proprietez et la maniere de se servir d'un elixer & d'une opiate, composés de simples souverainement bonnes pour les dents & pour les gencives, ...
[Paris, Le Cloitre du St. Sepulcre, ca. 1720]. 4to. Modern boards, covered with paste-paper. 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[AUSTRIA]. JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Anton von STÖRCK and Johann Jakob de WELL. Apotheek der Oostenrijksche staaten.
Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1780. Large 8vo (21 x 12.5 cm). Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [6], 309, [35] pp. Full description

[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmacopoea Austriaco-castrensis.
Vienna, Albert Anton Patzowsky, 1795. 8vo. Half calf, spine label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. [4], 102 pp. Full description

[BADEN - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmacopoea Badensis.
Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter, 1841. Large 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm). With the wood engraved arms of Baden on title-page. Near contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, 353, [1] pp. Full description

BAGLIVI, Giorgio. Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio septima.
Lugduni [= Lyon], Anisson & Joannis Posuel, 1710. 4to. With 3 engraved plates, including the famous one showing two tarantulas, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text, numerous woodcut decorated initials, some headpieces built up from typographic ornaments and some floral woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf. [6], XXXIX, [11], 854, [2] pp. Full description

BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad. De medicinae origine et progressu dissertationes. In quibus medicinorum sectae, institutiones, decreta, hypotheses, praeceptiones, &c. Ab initio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora traduntur.
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Paddenburg and Willem Kroon, 1723. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black with a small woodcut ornamental vignette, and two woodcut illustrations in the text. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, a large woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and woodcut ornamental tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper sides, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold (now faded), red edges. [1], [1 blank], [14], 679, [1] pp. Full description

BATE, Georgius. Pharmacopea Bateana, na qual se contem quasi oytocentos medicamentos tirados da pratica de Jorge Batea ... escrita pela ordem alphabetica, Traduzida de Lati mem Portuguez ... por D. Caetano de S. Antonio ...
Lisbon, Officina real Deslandesiana, 1713. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Calf over boards. (8), 310 pp. Full description

[BATE, Georg]. Pharmacopoea Batheana. Ofte den Apotheek van de heer Georgius Bath M.D. genees-heer van Karel de Tweede en lit van de Londense Societeit...In welke ontrent de tachentig uitgelezene medicamenten, op de order van een alphabeth werden vertoont: zijnde tegenwoordig in 't gebruik van de heeren doctoren tot Londen, en voorts gantsch Engeland door. Uitgegeven door den heer Jac. Shipton,. Waar agter komt Antoni de Heide M.D. Nieuw ligt der apothekers.
Amsterdam, Jan Hartig, 1742. 2 parts in one vol. Beautiful engraved frontispiece of the interior of a pharmacy by Jan Hartig, some woodcut initials and one wooduct tailpiece. Contemporary vellum. (16), 335 pp. Full description

BERGEN, Heinrich von. Versuch einer Monographie der China.
Hamburg, Hartwig &Muller, 1826. 2 volumes. Text volume 4to & atlas volume in royal folio. With 8 hand coloured engraved plates by Gustav Andreas Forsmann, and 5 leaves with 10 folding tables in the atlas volume. Uniform original blue boards, the atlas volume is a portfolio with the plates loosely inserted and remnants of blue closing ties. XI, [1], 348 pp. Full description

BERGIUS, Peter Jonas. Materia medica e regno vegetabili, sistens simplicia officinalia, pariter atque culinaria.
Stockholm, Peter Hesselberg, 1778. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf. [16], 448; [2], 449-908, [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BERTIN, Auguste. Traité de déchaussement et de l'ébranglemement des dents et des maladies des gencives.
Paris, the author (back of the half-title: printed by V. Goupy et Cie), 1865. Small 8vo. Contemporary half purple morocco. X, 311, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Alle de wercken. Zo in de medicyne als chirurgie.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz Schipper, [1656].
Containing:
(1) Schat der gesontheydt.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1656. In 2 volumes.
(2) Schat der ongesontheydt, ofte genees-konste van de sieckten.
Amsterdam, (volume 1 only: Jan Jacobsz. Schipper), 1656. In 2 volumes (title page of volume 2, on (i)2r, while (i)1v, the last page of vol. 1, has a catchword pointing to (i)2r). Each of the 3 appendices at the end has its own divisional title, without imprint.
(3) Inleydinge tot de Hollandtsche genees-middelen. Ofte Kort bericht, dat elck landt ghenoegh heeft tot onderhoudt van het leven ende de gesondtheydt der inwoonders.
[and with its own title-page on C4r and continuing the same series of page numbers:] Steen-stuck. Aenwijsende den oorspronck, teyckenen, t voorkomen, en ghenesen van steen en graveel.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1656.
(4) Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen. Met alderhande historien verlicht, ende met nieuwe curieuse platen verçiert. De platen van de aderen, slagh-aderen, ende zenuwen, &c. die in den voorgaenden druck seer onordentelijck zijn gestelt: midtsgaders de rekeningen die op deselve platen seer sloridgh aengewesen hebben geweest, zijn nu alle op haer bequame ordre gebracht, followed by Vervolgh van de heel-konste, verhandelende wonden, gehardtheydt, oorsponck van bus-poeder, ende geschut, kout-vyer, ontleden, ende gebroke beenderen. Met alderhande historien verlicht. 4 works (some with subdivisions) in 1 volume. Large 4to.(27 x 20.5 cm). With a richly engraved illustrated title page (with general title and undated imprint for the whole collection) drawn by Crispijn van de Passe the younger and engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, and 8 letterpress title pages for the 4 separate publications (also issued separately), all dated 1656 (that for volume 2 of the second work names no publisher, but shares a quire with the last leaf of volume 1), plus 2 divisional title pages without imprint (another subdivision has merely a drop-title). 5 of the title pages have the woodcut "konst baert roem" publishers device first used by Adriaen van de Venne in The Hague in 1628 (also used by Jan Friedrik Stam in 1657); ad 2, volume 2 has an engraved human anatomical figure; ad 3, part 1 has a woodcut decoration with 2 satyrs blowing horns. With 55 engravings in the text and 3 full-page engraved human anatomical plates, woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman type with incidental italic and textura, plus occasional words in Greek. 18th-century sprinkled half calf, sewn on 5 supports laced into the boards, sprinkled paper sides, black morocco spine label. [8], 200; [8], 207, [1 blank]; [4], 124; [2], 46; [6], 154, [8] pp. Full description

BLANCARDUS, Stephanus. Lexicon novum medicum Graeco-Latinum, caeteris editioibus longè perfectissimum.Inhoc enim totius artis medicae termini, in anatomia, chirurgia, pharmacia, chumia, re botanica, &c. ...
Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn & Jordaan Luchtmans, 1701. 8vo. With the engraved portrait of the author, 4 engraved full-page tables of medical symbols, title-page printed in red and black, some woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Vellum over boards, title written in ink on spine, sprinkled edges. [16], 662, [194] pp. Full description

BLONDEL, François. Thermarum Aquisgranensium, et Porcetanarum elucidatio, & thaumaturgia. Sive admirabilis earumdem natura, & admirabiliores sanationes; qua producunt in usibus balneationis, potationis.
Aachen, Johann Heinrich Clemens, 1688. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece with letterpress imprint and built-up border, Aachen coat of arms pasted on back of frontispiece, engraved coats of arms of 4 dedicatees on back of title-page, full-page engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved plan of Aachen (22.5 x 27 cm), folding engraved view of Burtscheid (11.5 x 24 cm) and 16 smaller engravings in text, depicting scenes and buildings relating to the springs. Contemporary flower-decorated paper over boards, red sprinkled edges. [32], 160, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOERHAAVE, Herman. Praxis medica, sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendoid & curandis morbis. Pars 1-5. Editio tertia, aucta, & accuratissima.London [= Amsterdam?], sumtibus societatis, 1738. 5 volumes bound as 3. Each title-page with a woodcut vignette and a border built up from typographic ornaments. With an engraved oval portrait of Boerhaave as added as frontispiece, pasted to the first fly-leaf.
With: (2) Herman BOERHAAVE. Historia plantarum. quae in Horto Academico Lugduni Batavorum crescent cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus desumptis ex ore ... Hermanni Boerhaave ... Collectis atque in lucem editis ab ***. Pars 1-2. Editio novissima, aucta ...12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 648, [12]; [2], 400, [6]; [2], 458, [2]; [2], 326, [6]; [2], 382, [10] pp; [4], 408, [2], 409-696, [30] pp. Full description

BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'Achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1845.
With:
(2) IDEM. Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano... offre e dedica nel presente atlante ripristinate nel loro stato naturale le varie deformita che nello spazio di un quinquennio ha avuto a curore nella clinica.
Naples, [Filiatre Sebezio?], 1845.
(3) IDEM. Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1844.
(4) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.
Naples, Ministero di Stato degli affari interni, [1841].
(5) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, [1842]. 5 works in 1 volume. Super Royal (except ad 1 Demy) 8vo, mostly in 4s. Ad 2: with 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs. Ad 4: with 4 folding lithographs (20 x 24 cm). Ad 5: with 3 lithographs, including 1 folding (19.5 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, shell on shell marbled sides, gold- and black-tooled spine with title in 2nd of 5 fields. 24; [38]; 14, [2 blank]; [4], 24; [2], 43, [1] pp. Full description

[BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel
Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.
With:
(2) [IDEM]. [Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel].
Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.
(3) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried. Programma quo Christ. Ehrenfr. Weigel... fratris dilectissimi Caroli Henrici Bernhardi Weigel... dissertationem inauguralem... publice defendam indicit praemittens historiae baryllorium rudimenta.
Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785.
(4) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried and Karl Heinrich Bernhard WEIGEL. Dissertatio inauguralis sistens experimenta chemica et instrumenta chirurgica emendata.
Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Ad 3 with a folding letterpress dedication page and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. Ad 4 with a folding engraved plate showing surgical instruments and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. 19th-century boards, red title label on spine. [1], [1 blank], [6], 76, [4]; 76, [4]; 28; [1], [1 blank], [4], 50 pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. CAMPER, Petrus. [Autograph letter, signed, to Reinier Arrenberg].
Groningen, 2 February 1773. 4to. Brown ink on laid paper, addressed on the outside and with an armorial red wax seal.
With: (2) [PORTRAIT]. [PUJOS, André]. P. Camper, ...
[Paris, André Pujos, 1786]. 4to. Mezzotint portrait on laid paper. [1], [1 blank, except for the address]; [1] ll. Full description

CAMPER, Petrus. Verhandeling van Petrus Camper, over het natuurlijk verschil der wezenstrekken in menschen van onderscheiden landaart en ouderdom; over het schoon in antyke beelden en gesneedene steenen. Gevolgd door een voorstel van eene nieuwe manier om hoofden van allerleye menschen met zekerheid te tekenen.
Utrecht, B. Wild and J. Altheer, 1791. Large 4to (ca. 26 x 20 cm). With 10 engraved plates: 5 folding double-page plates, 4 full-page plates, numbered I-IX and all dated ca. 1768-1786 in the plates, depicting heads and skulls of humans and apes engraved by Reinier Vinkeles after Petrus Camper, and 1 unnumbered plate depicting a geometric figure. 19th-century mottled calf, with a circular green morocco inlay lettered in gold, within a gold-tooled laurel wreath as a centre piece on both boards. "VIII" [= X], 108, [1]. [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Enchiridion medicum oft medicyn boexken waer in verhandelt worden veel sieekten [!] die daghelyckx voorvallen, daer by de remedien om die te genesen ...
Including:
[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Eenige remedien die aengaen de chirurgie ofte uytwendige gebreken des lichaems.
[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Clarius et majus lumen pharmacopaeorum. Dat is claerder en meerder licht der apothekers...
Antwerp, Jean Francois Lucas, 1724. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a general title-page, part 2 with a half-title and part 3 with it's own title-page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [16], 75, [5], 31, [1], 86, [2] pp. Full description

[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Enchiridion medicum oft medicyn boexken waer in ver-handelt worden veel sieckten die daghelijckx voor-vallen, daer by de remedien om die te genesen ... den vyfden druck vermeerdert ende verbetert.
Including:
[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Eenige remedien die aen-gaen de chirurgie ofte uyt-wendige gebrecken des lichaems.
[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Clarius et majus lumen pharmacopaeorum. Dat is claerder en meerder licht der apothekers...
Antwerp, Conradus Ignatius van der Hey, 1734. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [16], 78, [6], 31, [1], 86, [2], [4 blank] pp. Full description

COLETTI, Ferdinando. Sull' avvelenamento pe' funghi.
Padova, Prem. Stab. di P. Prosperini, 1863. 8vo. Green paper wrappers. 62 pp. Full description

COMENGE Y FERRER, Luís. Curiosidades médicas precedidas de un discurso sobre el florecimiento de la medicina Española en el siglo XVI y su posterior decadencia.
Madrid, Manuel Ginés Hernández, 1886. 8vo. With 3 lithographed plates (2 folding), reproducing manuscript letters. Modern dark purple half sheepskin, with the original printed front wrapper bound in. 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DAMIRI, Muhammad ibn Musa al-. Kitab Hayat al-Hayawan [= Book of the life of animals].
Meknes, Morocco, 1267 AH [= 1851 CE]. 4to (19 x 23 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper, brown maghribi script in two hands with important words and phrases in red and blue. With an illuminated head-piece at the start of the text in red, blue, green, and gold. Contemporary gold-tooled red leather with a fore-edge flap. 62 ll. Full description

DELACOUR, chirurgien-dentiste. Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades.
Metz, the author (back of the title page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. With slab-serif capitals on the title page and sans-serif capitals in a heading on p. 3. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on the spine. 12 pp. Full description

DEMARLE, Louis-Gustave. Essai sur la coca (erythroxylon coca) du Perou.
Paris, Rignoux, imprimeur de la faculté de médicine, 1862. 4to. Side stitched through two holes. 52 pp. Full description

[DEUX NÈTHES - PHARMACOPOEIA]. VAN DEN ZANDE, J.B.J., et al (ed.). Pharmacopoeia manualis, a concilio medico praefecturae Utriusque Nethae edita.
Antwerpen, Antonius Grangé, 1812. 8vo. 19th-century green half sheepskin, marbled sides. VIII, 208 pp. Full description

DIDIER, Joseph-Maximilien. Mémoire sur de nouvelles dents et de nouveaux dentiers en pate minéro-adamantine, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, ou Nouveau système de prothèse dentaire dont la beauté, la propreté, la durée, l'utilité et la perfection de l'ajustement, obvient à tous les inconvénients des dents et des dentiers actuellement en usage, suivi de quelques conseils sur la conservation des dents chez l'adulte et chez l'enfant.
[Paris, chez l'auteur, 1846]. Small 8vo. Recent dark blue-grey cloth over boards. 16 pp. Full description

DIGBY, Kenelmus (or DYGBY), Nicolas PAPINUS & Athanasius KIRCHER. Theatrum Sympateticum, ofte wonder toneel der natuirs verborgentheden. Behelsende een uitstekende oratie, over het gebruik des poeders de sympathie, daar in de waarheid zijner werkinge werd ontdekt. ...
Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, Jan ten Hoorn, Pieter Ruirds, 1709. 2 parts in one volume. Small 8vo. With a fine engraved frontispiece by J. Luyken. Contemporary vellum, title in ink in manuscript on spine. [8], 320; 196, [20] pp. Full description

ELOY, N.F.J. Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne. Ou mémoires disposés en ordre alphabétique pour server à lhistoire de cette science, et à celle des medecins, anatomistes, botanistes, chirurgiens, et chymistes de toutes nations.
Mons, H. Hoyois, 1778. 4 volumes. Large 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece; woodcut printers devices, engraved and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges, marbled endpapers [6], VIII, XII, 745, [2]; [4], 650; [4], 648; [4]; 626, [2] pp. Full description

ELZEVIER, Kornelis. Lexicon galeno-chymico-pharmaceuticum, of apothekers woordenboek.
Amsterdam, Gerrit de Groot and the widow of Salomon Schouten and sons, 1755. 2 volumes. Large 4to (27 x 21 cm). With engraved frontispiece and an engraving in text. 19th-century red calf. [20], 1105, [1 blank]; [4], 966 pp. Full description

EUSTACHIUS, Bartolomaeus and Andreas BONN (editor). De ontleedkundige plaaten van B. Eustachius.
Amsterdam, Lodewijk van Es, [1798]. Folio (ca. 37 x 24.5 cm). With 47 engraved plates on 41 leaves. Early 19th-century quarter vellum, brown marbled paper sides, with the author in manuscript at the head of the spine. [2], [51] ll. and 47 engraved plates on 41 leaves. Full description

FAUCHARD, Pierre. Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.
Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf. XXIV, 494, [8], [2 blank]; [20], 424 pp. Full description

FRANCUS, Georgius (Georg FRANCK von FRANCKENAU). Tractatio qua lupanaria, vulgo Huren-Häuser, ex principiis medicis improbantur.
Halle, Johann Christian Hendel, 1743. 4to. With woodcut vignet on title, woodcut headpiece, and large woodcut initial in text. Modern wrappers. 24 pp. Full description

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica; in qua octingentorum, contra omnis generis morbos probatissimorum selectissimorumque medicamentorum, in nullo dispensatorio obviorum, sed partim ex optimis & hoc tempore celeberrimis practicis desumptorum, partim ab amicis communicatorum, partim ex privatis manuscriptis erutorum, partim denique propria industria inventorum, fidelis & accurata descriptio, ordine, ut vocant, alphabetico, insculpta legitur. Cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & & pharmacopoeisperutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus.
Nuremberg, Johann Fr. Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Narrow 12mo. With a folded title page printed in red and black, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments.19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine, with dark green title-label. [22], 468, [48] pp. Full description

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica ... cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & pharmacopoeis perutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus ...
Nürnberg, Johann Friedrich Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Agenda 12mo (16.5 x 7 cm). With double-page title page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf. [24], 468, [48] pp. Full description

FRIEDRICH AUGUST II, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE and Karl Joseph HEIDLER. Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, ... ergänzt, und mit einem anhange über die andern naturhistorischen Verhältnisse der Curortes.
Prague, Kronberger and Weber ("Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Söhne"), 1837. 8vo. With 5 lithographed plates numbered I-II, [III], IV-V, namely a frontispiece view by Sandtner, 3 further illustration plates (1 hand-coloured) and a hand-coloured folding petrographic map of Marienbad. Also with a folding letterpress table. Contemporary brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. X, 203, [1 blank] pp. Full description

FULLER, Thomas. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines, containing a thousand select prescripts, answering most intentions of cure. To which are added, useful scholia, a catalogue of remedies, and copious index, for the assistance of young physicians.
London, William Innys, 1714. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue (1684-1756) after Joseph Tymewell (fl. 1717-1737). Contemporary calf. [18], 14, 512, [32] pp. Full description

FULLER, Thomas. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chilias, in qua remediorum elegantium & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes fere medendi intentiones accommodata, candidade proponuntur.
Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1731. 8vo. Title in red and black with woodcut device. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, red edges, marbled endpapers. [32], 382, [34] pp. Full description

GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio altera revisa & aucta.
Leiden, Coenraad Wishoff & Georgius Jac. Wishoff, Conr. Fil., 1752. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title-page and 3 interesting historiated woodcut initials. Full calf over boards. (16), 437 (pp. 422-432 numb. 522-532), (19) pp. Full description

GAUDEREAU, Abbé Martin. Relation des differentes especes de peste que reconnoissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remedes qu'ils prennent pour en empêcher la communication & le progrès; et de ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guerir.
Paris, Jacques Quillau, 1721. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the arms of Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) on both boards, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 134, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[GHANA - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [Photo album of the British Gold Coast Colony in the early 1910s, with an emphasis on the medical services].
[Ghana, early 1910s]. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. With 96 silver gelatin photographs (7 x 9.5 cm), mounted in an album and captioned in English below. Contemporary blue cloth photo album. 24 ll. Full description

GODARD, Ernest. Égypte et Palestine observations médicales et scientifiques.
Paris, Victor Masson et fils (back of half-title: printed by Simon Raçon et Comp.), 1867. 2 volumes: 8vo (text) and 4to (plates). With an engraved author's portrait by Jean Charles Le Vasseur and 27 numbered lithographed plates, each preceded by a leaf with a short letterpress caption. Later black half goatskin, with the original boards (text) and the plates loosely inserted in original publisher's portfolio, printed boards, rebacked with black cloth. [6 incl. portrait], XXXI, [1 blank], 438 pp. Full description

GROENVELT, Joannes (John GREENFIELD or GROENVELD). A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in the practice of physick.
London, Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, 1706. 8vo. 19th-century tanned half sheepskin, tree-marbled paper sides. [40], 363, [3] pp. Full description

HAAN, Andreas Leopold. Proeven met de Papiniaansche pot. Waardoor aangetoond wordt dat, door dezelve, de plantgewassen, dieren en mineralen niet alleen, binnen weinig uuren , door een eenvoudig scheivogt ontbonden, maar ook de zuiverste extracten en wezenlyke zoutten bereidt konnen worden. Uit het Latyn vertaald door een liefhebber der scheikunde. En met een aanpryzend bericht voorzien door Boudewyn Tieboel.
Amsterdam, M. Schalekamp, 1775. 8vo. With a full-page engraving of the "papiaanse pot". Original grey wrappers. XVIII, 60 pp. Full description

HEERS, Henri de. Spadacrene ou dissertation physique sur les Eaux de Spa.
The Hague, P. Paupie, 1739. 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with woodcut title-vignette, initials and ornamental head- and tailpieces. Red paper over boards, paper piece with the number "2956" on the spine. [14], 252, [6] pp. Full description

HERTODT, Matthias Franciscus ab. Medicus euporistus duodecim medicamentorum generalium supellectile e materia passim obvia instructus ...
The Hague, Guillaume de Voys, 1711. With 1 engraved plate. Title-page in red and black, with woodcut device. Contemporary calf with gold-tooled spine. [12], 9-170, [2] pp. Full description

HULLIET, N. Hygiène des blancs, des mixtes et des Indiens à Pondichéry.
Puducherry, Géruzet, 1867. 8vo. Modern wrappers. 272 pp. Full description

HUNTER, John. Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ... Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert / Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption ("Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson"). Contemporary tree-marbled boards. XXII, 213, [1] pp. Full description

[JACOBSZ, Heyman]. Schat der armen, of huismedicyn boekje van veelerhande medicamenten, om met kleine kosten zyn eigen doctor te zyn, en velerleye ziektens te genezen. Benevens eene aanwyzing, hoe men de gezondheid lang bewaren kan. ...
Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749.
With: (2) SIMONS, Guillaume. Den troost der armen; behelzende lichte en souvereine remedien, tegen verscheide ziekten, wonden, gezwellen, en andere kwalen des lichaams van den van den mensch ...
Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749.
2 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 8vo. Title-page of ad 1 in red and black and one ornamental tail-piece on p. 207. Both works with woodcut initials and small ornaments on both title-pages. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title label on spine. [8], 211, [1]; 48 pp. Full description

JAMET, C. L. Mémoire sur l'art du dentiste, adressé à les ministres de l'instruction publique, de l'agriculture, du commerce et de la justice, et à M. Orfila, doyen de la Faculté de Médecine.
Paris, the author, 1845. Small 8vo. Modern boards with a morocco spine-label lettered in gold. 32 pp. Full description

KLUGE, Carl Alexander Ferdinant (F. VAN DER BREGGEN, transl.). Proeve eener voorstelling van het dierlijk magnetismus als geneesmiddel. Uit het Hoogduitsch met eenige bijvoegselen door F. van der Breggen.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1812. 8vo. With an engraved title-page including an allegorical scene engraved by W. van Senus showing Asklepios and Hypnos chasing Death away from a sick man. Modern half vellum, marbled sides, new endpapers. [4], 551, 50 pp. Full description

KOCH, Christian Andreas. Affectum in libris et praxi rarissimum ab Hermanno Boerhaave in nosocomio Lugduno-Batavo.
Leiden, Philippus Bonk, 1738. 4to. With a full-page plate of a human body part in formaldehyde and an engraved printer's device on the title-page. Also with some woodcut initials and headpieces. Modern half calf. [6], 22, [1 blank], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

KOENIG, Samuel Fridericus. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de Lamio Plinii.
Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1742. 4to. With a folding engraved plate. Disbound. [4], 20 pp. Full description

[KRAFFT, Abraham Friedrich]. Der sowohl Menschen und Viehe grausamen Thiere, schädlichen Ungeziefers und verderblichen Gewürmer gäntzliche Ausrottung.
Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Buggel, 1709-1712. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a folding illustrated engraved title-page and a folding letterpress title-page, and a larger folding engraved plate in volume II. Contemporary but not uniform vellum. [22], “699” [= 697], [23]; [38], 944, [48] pp. plus 2 folding letterpress title-pages and the 3 engravings. Full description

LÉMERY, Nicolas. Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples. Où lon trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine ... & tout ce quil y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Troisième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par lauteur.
Amsterdam, for the "Compagnie", 1716. Large 4to. With an engraved title-vignette ("Vis unita major") and 25 folding engraved plates each with 16 figures of various plants, animals and metals, in alphabetical order. Contemporary speckled calf, title in gold on spine, blind tooled binding edges. [20], 590, [58] pp. Full description

LEMERY, Nicolas. Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples. Où lon trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine ... & tout ce quil y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Quatrième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par lauteur.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1727. Large 4to. With an engraved title-vignette and 25 folding engraved plates each with 16 figures of various plants, animals and metals, in alphabetical order. Contemporary half calf,. [20], 590, [58] pp. Full description

LÉMERY, Nicolas. Pharmacopée universelle, continent toutes les compositions de pharmacie qui son ten usage dans la medicine, tant en France que par toute lEurope ...
The Hague, Pierre Gosse and Jacques Neaulme, 1729. Large 4to. Title in red and black, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Later sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold and a manuscript paper title label on the front board. [16], 780, [26] pp. Full description

LEWIS, William. An experimental history of the materia medica, or of the natural and artificial substances made use of in medicine: containing a compendious view of their natural history, an account of their pharmaceutic properties, and an estimate of their medicinal powers.
London, H. Baldwin, 1761. Large 4to. Later calf, blind-ruled boards and spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold. XXII, [2], 591, [32] pp. Full description

LISTER, Martin. Dissertatio de humoribus, in qua veterum ac recentiorum medicorum ac philosophorum opiniones & sententiae examinantur.
Amst., (heirs of Johannes II) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1711. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [18], 486, [24] pp. Full description

MACHOLD, Joseph (Josef). Zehn tafeln zur anatomie des Pferdes . . .
Vienna, the author "in Commission bei F. Paternos Nachfolger" (printed by Adolf Holzhausen), [1879]. Oblong 1mo (35×49 cm). With 10 numbered chromo-lithographed and double-tinted lithographed plates (35×49 cm), loose as issued. Original publisher's printed front wrapper preserved, back wrapper lacking. In a modern clamshell box. 15, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - BOOK OF SECRETS - GERMAN]. [Medicinal recipes and incantations].
[Germany?], [ca. 1700?]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). Manuscript in German with occasional Latin phrases, written on laid paper in brown and black ink in at least two German gothic cursive hands (the Latin phrases in Latin hands), a "tetragrammaton" diagram (rectangular with a St Andrews cross rather than star-shaped) with the name of (the archangel) Uriel and a "sator rotas" square. Lacking quire A and bifolium B1.8 (10 ll.?). Brown vellum(?) wrapper, sewn without supports at 3 stations. [4], 17-28, 31-78, [8] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DECLARATION]. [Declaration signed by five Dutch captains in Sydney Harbour].
(Signed:) Sydney, 24 December 1853. Ca. 32.5 x 20 cm. Housed in a white paper folder. [1] l. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.
1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold. [5] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - IBN SINA (AVICENNA)]. [Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar AL-GAMINI and others]. [Qanunceh (= Small canon)].
[colophon: 1279 AH (= 1862 CE)]. (ca. 17.5 x 10.5 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in a cursive, Persian-Arabic script in 15 to 23 lines per page. With 1 leaf containing 8 hand coloured illustrations, with captions, of medical instruments (4 instruments on respectively the recto and verso of leaf 26). Contemporary brown calf, with blind-stamped decorations. [29] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PHARMACOLOGY]. [Medicinal recipes for sexual ailments].
[Germany?, ca. 1857]. Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm). Manuscript in Latin and German. Contemporary half tan cloth. 33, [35], [32 blank] pp. Full description

[MEDICAL MANUAL AND RECIPE BOOK]. Examen: vor ein neuer angehender Chirurgus, der sich will examiniren lassen, daß er in seinem examen bestehet, und wohl erfunden wird, so muß er dieses alles auswendig lernen, daß er antworten kann, über dasjenige was ihm gefragt wird. Anno 1806.
Franconia and Alsace (Augsburg, Nuremberg, Strasbourg), 1800-1826. 4to (17 x 23 cm). German (and Latin) manuscript by various hands. Contemporary boards with vellum corners and modern cloth spine. [47], "286" [= 285], [47] pp. Full description

[MEDICINE - RECIPES]. Recepten boek.
[The Netherlands], album [ca. 1700], written [ca. 1720] to 1758 or possibly later. Large agenda 8vo (20.5 x 12 cm). Manuscript in dark brown ink on laid paper, with 1 printed and 10 manuscript slips with recipes loosely inserted (late 18th & early 19th centuries). Recased ca. 1720 in its own original ca. 1700 blind-tooled parchment, with a large centrepiece on each board. pp. [15], 16, 23-188, 197-386, [387]-[412] (minus 16 scattered pp.), including integral paste-downs, and about 160 pp. blank except for the page number. Full description

MERCKLEIN, Georg Abraham. Neu ausgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch in vier besonderen Theilen verabfasset; ... Wobei verschiedene, wieder allerhand Kranckheiten bewehrte Geness-Mittel: angezeiget.
Nuremberg, Johan Friedrich Rüdiger, 1714. 8vo. With a double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig, a double-page letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 95 engraved plates, each depicting several animals. Contemporary vellum. [26], 732, [72] pp. Full description

MESMER, Franz Anton. Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.
Geneva & Paris, Pierre François Didot le jeune, 1779. Small 8vo. Later mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], VI, 85, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MINERAL SPRINGS – FRANCE]. [30 scientific and promotional publications on mineral springs in France].
France, 1870-1888. 30 works in 1 volume. 8vo. One work with 5 leaves with wood engraved illustrations and some others with an illustration on the title-page. Contemporary red half sheepskin, with gold fillets and title-label on spine, and the original wrappers of each work bound in. Full description

MOOR, Bartholomaeus de. Veris oeconomiae animalis, seu potius humanae, principiis innixae pathologiae cerebri delineation practica: in qua morborum soporosorum, per notas characteristicas, distinction: nec non spasmorum accuratior distribution traditor.
Amsterdam, Gerardus Borstius I, 1704. Small 4to. Title-page in red and black, with Borstiuss woodcut palm-tree device, woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with a centerpiece on each board, title in ink on spine. [16], 594, [20] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SHIP'S JOURNAL]. MORSE, Edward George. A journal of remarks and observations as kept by E. G. M. . ..
[mostly on board the barque Sarah of London], April 1831-14 March 1833 (with additions to 1835). with an engraved view as frontispiece, 15 full-page, 1 nearly full-page and 1 smaller manuscript maps and coastal profiles, plus a small engraved view ("Tomb of Napoleon") mounted on 1 page.
Including: MORSE, Edward George. Lecture Book [notes on anatomical lectures by Joseph Constantine Carpue].
[London], November-December 1828. with a matching pair of engravings of a scull on and facing the title-page, and 27 pencil and/or ink anatomical drawings (including 2 full-page), some also with red. 4to (19.5×16.5 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [191] ll. Including paste-downs and about 55 blanks. Full description

MORÉNO Y MAÏZ, Thomas. Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l'erythoxylum coca du Perou et la cocaïne.
Paris, A. Parent, imprimeur de la faculté de médecine, 1868. 4to. With a lithographic plate of coca leaves and 7 figures in the text showing the tension on the arteries after ingesting coca in various ways. Side stitched through 2 holes. [8], 90, [2] pp. Full description

MOUTINHO DOS SANTOS, Joaquim. Guia medica para prevenir, e tratar o cholera-morbo offerecida ao provedor, e irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia.
Santos, Typographia commercial de G. Delius, 1855. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame and the front wrapper and the title page show the same decorative device, including medical instruments, books, the profile of a head with a name(?) in Greek letters. Original publisher's green wrappers. 20 pp. Full description

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum.
Venice, Johann Gabriel Hertz, 1707. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 446 [=452], [52]; 162 [=168] pp. Full description

OOSTERDIJK, Nicolaas George. Praecepta medicinae practicae in usum academicum digesta.
Leiden, Abraham & Jan Honkoop, 1783. 8vo. With a decoration built up from rococo typographic ornaments on the title page, woodcut headpieces. Contemporary marbled paper over thin boards. [8], 294 pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Extract uit het geadviseerde door de stads-doctoren, op resolutie van burgermeesteren schepenen ende raad der stadt Harderwijck, van d. 18. october 1779. ter vergadering overgegeven, om, onder Gods zegen, de grasserende pers-loop, soo veel mogelijk, te praevenieren.
[Harderwijk, Johannes Mooijen?, 1779]. 4to. Bound as sewn. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Gelykheid, vryheid. Publicatie. Het departementaal bestuur van den Rhyn ... doet te weten: ... dat verscheiden lieden, uit vreze voor gestrenge examina, ... zich haasteden, om, vóór de invoerings des geneeskundigen bestuurs, zich, voornamelyk ten platten lande, en in kleine steden, alwaar geen toereikend geneeskundig toeverzicht plaats had, ter uitoeffening der genees- heel- verlos- en artsenymengkunde, neder te zetten ...
Arnhem, Abraham van Goor, 1800. 4to. Disbound. 12 pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Gelykheid! Vryheid! Notificatie. Het departementaal bestuur van den Rhyn ... doet te weten: dat, ten einde de meest in het oog lopende misbruiken, welke in het administreren van onderscheiden takken der geneeskunde binnen dit gemeenebest, door onkundige en ongequalificeerde uitoefenaaren, plaats hebben ...
Arnhem, Abraham van Goor, 1801. 4to. Disbound. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Publicatie van het departementaal bestuur van Gelderland, houdende verordeningen op de uitoeffening van alle de takken der geneeskunde in het departem. Gelderland. Gearresteerd den 9 december 1802.
Arnhem, J.H. Moeleman jr., [1802]. 4to. With woodcut coat-of-arms of Arnhem on the title-page. Disbound. 24 pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - MEDICINE]. Publicatie van het departementaal bestuur van Overijssel houdende reglement op het afnemen der examina van heelmeesters, vroedmeesters, apothekers, en vroedvrouwen, door de departementale commissie van geneeskundig onderzoek en toevoorzicht van Overijssel. Gearresteerd den 8 maart 1805.
Zwolle, H. Tijl, J. de Vri & F. Clement, 1805. 8vo. With a woodcut coat-of-arms of Overijssel on the title-page. Bound as sewn. [2 blank], 17, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - PHARMACY]. Nieuwe geamplieerde en gealtereerde ordonnantie voor het Collegium pharmaceuticum, ende het gehele gilde van de apothekarissen binnen de stadt Leyden.
Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1765. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title-page. Bound as sewn. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[OVERIJSSEL - MEDICINE & PHARMACY]. Lijst der Medicinae Doctoren, Heelmeesters, Vroedmeesters, Heelmeesters ten Platten Lande, Apothekers, Vroedvrouwen en Drogisten in de Provincie Overijssel, voor den Jare 1821.
[1821]. 8vo. Unbound. 21 pp. Full description

[FRANCE - PHARMACOPOEIA] Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea Gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a facultate medica Parisiensi anno 1818.
Paris, Hacquart, 1818. Large 4to. With a woodcut vignette and monogram on the title-page. Contemporary half black sheepskin. [8], CCXXII, 406 pp. Full description

[PLAGUE]. Papers relating to the modern history and recent progress of Levantine plague; prepared from time to time by direction of the president to the local government board, with other papers. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1879. C.-2262.
London, George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1879. Folio. With two folding lithographed maps, one centered on the Middle East and the other detailing the seats of the plague in Mesopotamia and south-west Persia.Original publishers blue printed paper wrappers. [2], 76 pp. Full description

PLENCK, Joseph Jakob and A. SCHRAGE (transl.) Heelkundige artzeny-winkel of chirurgyns-apotheek. Vervattende alle beproefde en hedendaagsch gebruikelyke bereide en samengestelde heelmiddelen, ter geneezing van uitwendige ziekten.
Antwerp, C.H. de Vos, 1798. 8vo. Contemporary calf, heavily restored. [1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], 212 pp. Full description

PLUTARCH and Desiderius ERASMUS (translator and editor). Ex Plutarcho versa per Des. Erasmum Roterodamum. Recognita per eundem, ex collatio[n]e Graecoru[m] voluminu[m] ut seque[n]s ha bet pagella ...
Basel, Johann Froben, (colophon:) September 1520. 4to. With the title set within an elaborate woodcut frame, a smaller woodcut frame on the verso of the title page and the first page of the first text. Further with 9 woodcut decorated initials, woodcut headpieces, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the last page. Modern gold-tooled half calf. 167, [1] pp. Full description

[PORTUGAL – PHARMACOPOEIA]. SANTO ANTONIO, Caetano de. Pharmacopea Lusitana reformada methodo pratico de preparar os medicamentos na fórma Galenica, & Chimica.
Lisbon, Monastery of São Vicente de Fóra, 1711. Small folio (29 x 21 cm). With engraved arms as fronstipiece. Modern sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [28], 494, 29, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PRUYS van der HOEVEN, C., C.W.H. van KAATHOVEN, G. SALOMON. Geschiedverhaal van de cholera-epidemie te Leiden, in 1832.
Leiden, C.C. van der Hoek, 1833. Large 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers. VIII, 224 pp. Full description

QUILLIAM, Andrew. An abridged collection of photographs, taken in various departments of some of the hospitals which I have attended whilst a student 1940-43.
[England], 1940-1943. With 137 gelatin silver prints (including many repeats) and 161 celluloid negatives, most of them measuring ca. 5.5 x 8 cm, but some larger formats. Five albums of varying sizes with photographs, one box with some loosely inserted photographs and 2 albums with negatives. Full description

RAMAZZINI, Bernardo. De morbis artificum diatriba.
Modena, Antonius Capponus, 1700. 8vo. Modern calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, 360 pp. Full description

[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

REINHARD, Johann Christoph. Etymologia Graeco-Latina oder lexicon manuale philologicum, darin die der Latinitaet oft vorkom[m]ende griechische Wörter mit ihren Grund-Nahmen in Benennung der Kräuter, Thiere &c.Including: Etymologia Graeco-Latina, das ist Gründliche erklährung derer Griechschen und Lateinischen Wörter.
Frankfurt an der Oder, Johann Gottfried Conradi (part 1); Tobias Schwartzen (part 2), (1721). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum. [248]; [40] ll. Full description

[RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. Ricettario Fiorentino nuovamente compilato e ridotto all'uso moderno diviso in due parti.
Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. Large 4to (28 x 21 cm). With engraved illustration on title-page, a decorated engraved initial, and a few woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century sheepskin parchment, manuscript title on spine. VII, [1 blank], 350, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROSEN VON ROSENSTEIN, Nils. Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras bote-medel: tilförene styckewis utgifne uti de små allmanachorna, nu samlade, tilökte och förbättrade.
Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1764. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut gothic initials and cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Contemporary half calf. [2], 363, [11] pp. Full description

RUYSCH, Frederik. Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken. Meerendeels in 't Nederduyts vertaalt door Ysbrand Gysbert Arlebout.
Amsterdam, Janssoons van Waesberge, 1744. 3 volumes. Large 4to. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 titles in red & black, engraved portrait of Ruysch designed by I. Wandelaar and executed by D. Hoogstraten, 7 engraved illustrations in text, 2 woodcut illustrations in text and 133 engraved folding plates with anatomical designs and anatomical specimen. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt with red-morocco title-labels. [4], 1280, [184] pp. Full description

SALLANDER, Hans. Bibliotheca Walleriana the books illustrating the history of medicine and science collected by Dr. Erik Waller and bequeathed to the library of the Royal University of Uppsala.
Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell, 1955. 2 volumes. With 55 plates. Original publishers printed paper wrappers. Full description

SCHELENZ, Hermann. Geschichte der Pharmazie.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1904. Contemporary brown cloth (24.5 x 16.5 cm). IX, [3], 934, [6] pp. Full description

SIEBOLD, Alexander Freiherr von. Ph. Fr. von Siebold's letzte Reise nach Japan 1859-1862 ... von seinem ältesten Sohne.
Berlin, Kisak Tamai, 1903. 8vo (22.5 x 14 cm). With title-page in Japanese and German, 2 half-tone plates showing photographic portraits of Philip von Siebold (1 with his son Alexander) and 3 photographic views in the text. Original publisher's printed cloth-covered paper wrappers, with publisher's advertisements printed on paste-downs. IX, [1], 130, [4], [2 blank] pp. Full description

SODRÉ, Antonio Martins (pseudonym of Antonio DOS MÁRTIRES). Collectaneo pharmaceutico divido em duas partes, nas quaes se acharáõ as melhores perguntas, e respostas, e algumas eleiçoens de simples, com suas explicaçoens ao texto de Mesue, tiradas dos melhores autores antigos, e modernos da arte pharmaceutica. Obra utilissima para se examinarem os novos professores da mesma arte.
Porto, Antonio Alves Ribeiro Guimaraens, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine. [32], 188, [4 blank] pp. Full description

SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von, the younger. Vom Hirn und Rückenmark.
Mainz, P.A. Winkopp & Komp., 1788. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). With a decorated rule on the title-page and a few decorations built up from cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types with Latin words in italic and non-German book titles in roman. The present copy has a pomegranate stamped on the title-page after printing and folding but before binding. Near contemporary boards covered with orange paste-paper, gold-tooled spine label, orange and brown sprinkled edges. “XIV” [= XVI], 115, [1] pp. Full description

[SPAIN - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmacopoea Hispana. Editio quarta.
Madrid, M. Repullés, 1817. 8vo. With allegorical steel engraving by B. Ametler after Luiz Paret, dated 1794 (date of the first edition) with the motto Ars cum Natura ad Salutem conspirans (85 x 97 mm). Mottled calf. [2], VIII, [4], 358 pp. Full description

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

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. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a full-page engraved plate of the blood circulation of the heart, a woodcut headpiece, and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt and decorated in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold. [8], 84, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

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.
With:
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.
With:
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

THEDEN, Johann Christian Anton and A. SCHRAGE (translator). Genees- en heelkundig onderwys voor land- en zee-chirurgyns, vervattende een kort begrip der ontleed-, gezondheid-, ziekte-, genees- en heelkunde, nevens de nieuwste en zekerste genees- en heelmiddelen.
Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1782. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title page. Contemporary gold- and blindtooled sheepskin, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [4], 439, [5] pp. Full description

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

THOMSON, Alexander. Dissertationes medicae. I. De motu, quo renituntur canals, in fluida corporis animalis. II. De aquarum mineralium examine, & origine. III. De martis, & aquarum mineralium. IV. De mercurii. V. De opii. VI. De morbis animi. Introductio exhibet ideam progressus medicinae, hodiernum ejus statum, & quemobrem, à detecto sanguinis circuitu, ars hactenus fere inexculta subsistat.
Leiden, Frederik Haring, 1705. 8vo. With a woodcut title vignette and woodcut initials. Contemporary calf, title in gold on spine. 155 pp. Full description

TONINI, Ferdinand. Prospetto cromo-litografíco confrontativo tolto dal vero dei funghi mangerecci coi funghi velenosi o sospetti i più comuni ...
Como, printed by the sons of Carlantonio Ostinelli (lithographed by Vasalli, Milano), 1845. Oblong 4to (25.5 x 35.5 cm). With lithographed and letterpress title-page, and 15 partly hand-coloured lithographs on 8 leaves with descriptive letterpress text. Original printed wrappers, with a wide variety of decorative types and borders. [9] ll. Full description

UDAGAWA, Genshin. Ihan Teiko.
Edo (Tokyo), 1805. 2 volumes: 3 parts in 1 text volume and 1 atlas volume. Text volume (8vo), atlas volume (large 8vo, 30 x 21 cm). With numerous anatomical illustrations on 16 engraved plates, mounted on thick paper, by the Japanese artist Aodo Denzen. Both volumes in contemporary Japanese book-bindings; rice-paper (text) and boards (atlas). [90]; [16] ll. Full description

VALSALVA, Antonio Maria. Opera. Hoc est tractatus de aure humana editione ... et dissertationes anatomicae, ... Omnia recensuit, & auctoris vitam addidit Joannes Baptista Morgagnus.
Leiden, Johannes Hasebroek, 1742. With title-page printed in red and black and 13 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) DUVERNEY, Guichard Joseph. Tractatus de organo auditus, continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium.
Nürnberg, printed by Johann Zieger for Johann Michael Spörlin, 1684. With 16 folding engraved plates, unsigned, but attributed to Sebastien le Clerc (1637-1714). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary vellum. 40, [10], 143, [19], 163-203, [1 blank]; [12], 48 pp. Full description

VENEL, Jean-André. Nouveaux secours pour les corps arrêtés dans l'oesophage; ou description de quatre instrumens plus propres qu'aucun des anciens moyens à retirer ces corps par la bouche.
Lausanne, François Grasset & compagnie, 1769. 12mo (16.5 x 9 cm). With a folding engraved plate by Chovin after designs by the author. Modern boards. 42, [4] pp. Full description

VERBRUGGE, Johannes. Examen chirurgicum, oder vollkommene praxis chirurgico-medica in welcher nebst einer kurtzen, iedoch vollständigen anatomie alle chirurgicalische fundamenta ...
Dresden, Johann Christoph Zimmerman, 1704. 8vo. Contemporary boards. [16], 608, [32] pp. Full description

[WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY]. A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
London, the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962-1976. 3 volumes (of 5). Original publisher's dark blue cloth (29.5 x 21 cm). XV, 407; XI, 540; XVI, 565 pp. Full description