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Rare popular work with over 1500 "secrets"

BATTUS, Carolus. Secreet-boeck van vele diversche en heerlicke consten in veelderleye materien ...
Including: Aenhanghsel van verscheyden sonderlinge secreten, in 't maken, bereyden en bewaren van alderhande wijnen, als ook verwen[!], incten ende 't gene de verruw-konst en schrijf-konst aengaet.
Haarlem, Thomas Fonteyn, 1650-1651. 12mo. With a vignette built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, a divisional title page for the appendix, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, modern endpapers. 490, [1], [1 blank], 73, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Very rare edition of a popular work with over 1500 "secrets"

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
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Exceptionally rare illustrated treatise on medicinal oil distillation and early chemical apparatus

BESSON, Jacques. Art et moyen parfaict de tirer huyle et eaux, de tous medicaments simples & oleogineux.
Paris, pour Galiot du Pré, 1573. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 16 woodcut illustrations in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Early to mid-19th-century half marbled calf. "31" [= 32] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
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Immensely popular and famous medical vademecum for Dutch physicians and laymen

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Schat der gesontheyt. Tweede druck; Met veersen verçiert door Iacob Cats.
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Matthias Havius, 1638. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With engraved frontispiece behind the typographical title page, 2 full-page engraved frontispieces for books 1 and 2 of the first part, and 25 engraved illustrations in text by C. van Queboren after J. Hessels. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [12], 778 pp. Full description
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Attractively illustrated and popular medical work

BEVERWIJCK, Johan van and Jacob CATS. Wercken der genees-konste.
Amsterdam, (widow of) Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1672. 3 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 28 engravings in volume one, 29 engravings in volume two (including one on the title-page) and 20 engravings (including one on the title-page) plus 1 woodcut in volume three. Contemporary vellum. [18], 252; [8], 127, [1], 328, 48; [8], “278”[=276], [12] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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A famous Dutch physician in praise of his trade

[BEVERWIJCK, Jan van]. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.
[Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch, 1642?]. Small 8vo. With Van Esch's woodcut Maid of Dordrecht device on the title-page, a woodcut tail-piece, a woodcut factotum and 2 woodcut decorative initials. Wrappers (ca. 1800?) made from laid paper coloured green and glazed on the outer surface. 152 pp. Full description
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Is hair alive or not?

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.
With: PLEMPIUS (PLEMP), Fortunatus. Verhandeling der spieren. ...
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Loymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.
Small 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an emblematic engraving in the preliminaries, 5 engravings of herbs and plants, including 3 with views of Granada, Orange and Cairo, 2 anatomical engravings in the text and 11 full-page engraved anatomical plates. Original overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine, red edges. [44], 487, [7]; [6], 176 pp. Full description
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Two popular medical works in the vernacular by the famous city physician of Dordrecht

BEVERWIJCK, Johan van. Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Finely engraved architectural frontispiece, 8 half-page and 11 full-page engravings on integral leaves, 1 with an emblematic image of Fortuna in the preface, 5 illustrating herbs and other plants with botanical details (2 appear in views of Marseille and the city of Orange in Provence, and another includes a view of Cairo at the head) and 13 human anatomical views, including the vascular system and the musculature, woodcut initials.
(2) IDEM. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.
Dordrecht, [Hendrick van Esch for Jasper Gorrisz., 1644]. 8vo. With Van Eschs woodcut device on the title-page.
Contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine, red edges. [44], 487, [7]; 152 pp. Full description
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First known edition of a successful apothecarys manual for students,
mirroring the general knowledge of pharmacology in the mid-17th century

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. Pharmacia Galenica & chymica, dat is: apotheker ende alchymiste ofte distilleer-konste. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. [Additional title and imprint on the frontispiece:] Nieu licht der apothekers en distilleerkonst. ... tAmsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn op t Water.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1657. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing the interior of an apothecarys shop, Van Ravesteyns woodcut device on title-page (Elijah and the ravens); 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 339, 343 and 387); woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards. [8], 460, [12] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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