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Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

The second edition of a successful apothecary’s manual for students, mirroring the general knowledge of pharmacy in the middle of the 17th century

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. Pharmacia Galenica & Chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde Apotheker en Alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. ... en verrijckt met een kort Examen der Chirurgie, benevens een tractaet van de kennisse der Droogen. Den vierden druck.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece of the interior of an apothecarys shop: Het Nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der Apothekers en distilleerkonst. TAmsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn den [...in ink: tienden] druck 16[.. in ink: 1662]; woodcut printers device on title; 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 343, 347 and 391); woodcut initials and endpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards with title in ink on spine. [16], 466, [14], 54 pp. Full description
€ 1,650
Alchemy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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The first book on pharmaceutical chemistry published in the Southern Netherlands

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. Pharmacia Galenica & Chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde apothekeren alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selve. Verdeylt in acht boecken, tot onderwijsinghe der apothekers. En verrijckt met een vermeerderde examen der chirurgie, benevens een tractaet vande kennisse der drooghen. [Engraved title page:] Het nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der apothekers en distilleerkonst.
Antwerpen, Reynier Sleghers, 1667. 8vo. With an anonymous engraved title page and 2 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [16], 466, [22]; 70, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Alchemy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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By the man who proved the existence of the capillary system
as until then only suggested by Leonardo da Vinci

BLANKAART, Steven. Nieuw lichtende praktyk der medicynen, gesondeert op de gronden van de deftiigste autheuren deses tydts, en eigen ondervinding: Nevens de hedendaagsche chymia; als ook de Nederlandsche apothekers winkel, rykelyk met inlandse genees-middelen voorsien.
Amsterdam, Johannes ten Hoorn, 1680. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title page with views of a sickroom with a visiting physician, a chemist's atelier and a pharmacy, 4 full-page engraved plates and 3 woodcuts in the text, all in the second part. Further with a woodcut vignette on the title page, two divisional title pages, and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum, with the (faded) title in ink on the spine. [1], [1 blank], [14], 398, [6]; [4], 99, [5]; 46, [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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First Dutch guide to pediatrics (dedication in 1st state), with an appendix on Japanese and Borneo camphor

BLANKAART, Steven. Verhandelinge van de opvoedinge en ziekten der kinderen. Vertoonende op wat wyse de kinderen gezond konnen blyven, en ziek zijnde, bequamelyk konnen herstelt werden. Zeer nodig voor alle huyshoudende lieden.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1684. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing a hospital scene and 19 figures on 6 engraved plates. Near contemporary vellum. [8], 332, [20] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Japan & Far East Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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First edition of a work on smallpox by a Cartesian Dutch physician and medical author

BLANKAART, Steven. Venus belegert en ontset. Oft verhandelinge van de pokken, en des selfs toevallen, met een grondige en zekere genesinge. ...
Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1684. 8vo. With a finely etched and engraved illustrated title-page, and 8 finely engraved plates. Mottled half calf (ca. 1830?), gold tooled spine with a pink gold-tooled vellum label, decorated paper sides. Rebacked, preserving the original backstrip. [8], 522, [14] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Applying the philosophical ideas of Descartes to medicine

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Korte verhandeling van 's menschen leven, gesondheid, siekte, en dood, begrepen in een drie ledige reden, I. Over 't lighaam en sijne werkingen in gesondheid; II. Over de siekte en desselfs oorsaken; III. Over de middelen, om het leven en de gesondheid te bewaren en te verlengen ...
Including: [IDEM]. Drie verhandelingen, I. Over de natuur. II. Over de bevinding. III. Over de sekerheit in de genees- en heel-kunde.
The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, a purple ownership stamp on the front board. [124], 409, [14]; [4], 76 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Medical handbooks by Cartesian physicians and a work on chemistry with a false London imprint

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Fundamenta medica sive de alcali et acidi effectibus per modum fermentionis & effervescentiæ. Acedit ... Pharmocopaea ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Blankaart, 1688.
With:
(2) BLANKAART, Steven. Praxeos medicæ idea nova.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1685.
(3) VIGANI, Giovanni Francesco. Medulla chymiæ, variis experimentis aucta, multisq; figuris illustrata. ...
"London", [= northern Germany?], "Henry Faithorne & John Kersey" [printer and publisher unknown], 1685.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a divisional title for the Pharmacopaea, woodcut tailpieces, 1 woodcut decorated initial and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Ad 2 with Ten Hoorn's woodcut JCTH cypher monogram on the title page, the engraved arms of the dedicatee Abraham Johannes Kuffler, 6 engraved illustration plates showing 10 numbered figures, 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with 3 numbered engraved folding plates, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few fleurons. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, each board with a centrepiece and in each corner a fleur-de-lis, the whole in a frame of double fillets, red sprinkled edges. [8], 228, [11], [1 blank]; [16], 170, [6]; [10], 70 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Physics & Chemistry
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The first Dutch work on tropical medicine

BONTIUS, Jacobus, Willem PISO and Georg MARKGRAF. Oost- en West-Indische warande. Vervattende aldaar de leef- en genees-konst. Met een verhaal van de speceryen, boom- en aard-gewassen, dieren &c. in Oost- en West Indien voorvallende.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694.
With: (2) Johannes VERBRUGGE. De nieuwe verbeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist, sijnde een catalogus ofte lijste der medicamenten die yder chirurgijn naer Oost- of West Indiën gemeenlyk mede-voert.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1693.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (14.4 x 9.1 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved title page, erroneously mentioning the year 1693, a small fleur-de-lis woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial and a woodcut tail-piece. Ad 2 with a large woodcut vignette on the title page, and three woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 304, [7], [1 blank], 96 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Brazil Caribbean Islands Faunas & General Zoology Floras & General Botany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Medicine Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Middle America Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia VOC WIC
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Medical handbook compiled for Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange

[BONTIUS, Reinier? and others]. Vorstelick geschenk, dat is, een medecynboeck, inhoudende vele geproefde ende goet gevonden medecijnstucken, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. 8vo. With Van Ravesteyns woodcut device on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Contemporary(?) vellum, manuscript title on spine. “206” [= 208], [8] pp. Full description
€ 600
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Netherlands
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First edition of this manual for the examination to become a free Master-surgeon in the country or at sea, with a frontispiece by Jan Luyken

BOUT, Bernardus de. t Nieuwe examen der chirurgie, na de hedendaagse praktyk. t samen gestelt voor de gene, welke hare promotie moeten doen om vry messter te werden, en voor die te lande of te water in den oorlog dienen ... Vermeerderd met de Nieuw verbeeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist [by J. Verbrugge].
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1694. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken: "Examen der Chirurgie", with imprint below (cut short), woodcut title vignettes, initials and tailpieces. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold. [8], 390, [10], 96 pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Naval History Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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