Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

SCHOON, Theodorus. Defensio medica ofte den doctor van de nieuwe mode Schoon, naakt vertoont, nevens syne kueren, tot des selfs verdedigingh, tegens de frivole snapperyen der plamoters: wegen syn E. weergalooze tractaat, geintituleert, Den apotheker in 't hembd. Door een beminnaar der waarheyt en rechtzinnige geneeskunde.
The Hague, Gillis van Limburg, 1696.
With: (2) SCHOON, Theodorus. De apotheker in 't hembd, of de wederspannige knegt tegen syn meester.
The Hague, Engelbregt Boucquet, 1696. 8vo. Modern black marbled stiff paper wrappers, red sprinkled edges. 38, [2]; [18], 52, [2] pp. Full description

[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

TACHENIUS, Otto. Hippocrates chimicus, qui novissimi viperini salis antiquissima fundamenta oftendit ...
Hannover, Thomas Heinrich Hauenstein, 1668.
With: (2) TACHENIUS, Otto. Antiquissimae Hippocratiae medicinae clavis manuali experiential in naturae fontibus elaborate, quaper ignem & aquam inaudita method, occulta naturae, & artis, compendiosa operandi ratione manifesta fiunt, dilucidè aperiuntur. Seneca in epistola.
Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrod, 1669.
2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut device on title-page and a woodcut endpiece on last page. Contemporary vellum. [40], 270, [1]; 286, [2] pp. Full description

TACHENIUS, Otto. Hippocrates chimicus, qui novissimi viperini salis antiquissima fundamenta ostendit. …
With: (2) TACHENIUS, Otto. Antiquissime Hippocraticae medicinae clavis, ...
Leiden, Felix Lopez De Haro and Adrianus Severinus, 1671. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With newly engraved pharmaceutical title-page with a portrait of Hippocrates. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with modern endpapers. [48], 190, [2]; [24], 202, [14] pp. Full description

[TORINUS, Albanus (editor)]. De re medica huic volumini insunt...
[Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528]. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on final page, 2 pages with 4-piece decorative woodcut borders and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century half calf, with marbled paper in a tree pattern on sides, gold-tooled spine with the coat of arms of the Russian Tsars. [12], 125, [1] ll. Full description

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus. Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, montesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnib[us] adolescentibus in poesi versantibus oppidoquam necessarius, ...
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus (colophon: Godefried Hittorp), July 1529.
With: (2) FREUDENBERG, Aethon Johann von. De abusu & impostura medicantiu[m] libellus perquam utilis jucundusq[ue] omnibus, quibus cum medicis erit negocium.
Marburg, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an elaborate woodcut architectural border with the Cologne coat of arms in the head, the death of Cleopatra in the foot (flanked by roundel profile heads of a king and queen), further figures in the right and left sides (one labelled "Dionisius") and 3 putti, one holding a shield with a monogram or mark, perhaps of the artist or woodblock cutter. Set in roman types with 8 and 14 mm roman capitals used as initials. Ad 2: with 1 woodcut decorated initial (white on black with floral decoration) and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 7). Set in roman type with the dedication in an Aldine-style italic and with occasional words in Greek. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 4 supports, red edges, first title lettered in ink in the second spine compartment. [85], [1 blank]; [23] ll. Full description

VALENTINUS, Petrus Pomarius (editor). Articella nuperrime impressa cu[m] q[uam] plurimis tractatib[us] pristine impressio[n]i sup[er]additis, ut p[atet] i[n] pagina seque[n]ti. Petri Pomarii Valentini Hispani ad lectore[m] Hexastycho[n] ...
[(Colophon:) Lyon, Antoine du Ry impensis Jacques Giunta, 1525]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration, the title-page printed in red and black with a decorated woodcut border, and numerous woodcut initials in the text. Later parchment with the manuscript title on the spine. "369" [= 367] 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

[VAN GELDER COLLECTION]. [Collection of medical and satirical drawings, prints and broadsides].
Western Europe, ca. 1550-1970. Full description

WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus. Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis veterum. Specimen exhibens novae versionis ex Arabico, cum commentario uberiori. Cui accedit altera, de vermiculis capillaribus infantium.
Augsburg, Theophil Goebel, 1674. 4to (15.5 x 20.8 cm). With the title page printed in red and black, an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait, and 13 engraved plates. 18th-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the author and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. [54], 456, [120] pp. Full description