Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

GAEBELKOVER, Oswald. Medecijn-boeck. Daer inne, wt bevel des doorluchtighen hooch-gheborenen vorsten, ende heeren, heeren Lodewijck, hertoghe tot Wirtenberghe ... Meest voor alle lijfgebreken, ende cranckheyden wt gelesene en[de] beproefde medicijnen, die wt vele hooge ende nederstandes persoonen gheschrevene medicijnboecken, te samen, ende by een gebracht zijn. ... Wt Hoogduytsche sprake getrouwelick overgeset.
Dordrecht, Abraham Canin, 1598. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With Canins woodcut device on the title page. Contemporary vellum. [8], 199, 100-456 [= 556], [4] pp. (pp. 113-116 and 201-204 misbound). Full description

GALENUS (GALEN), Claudius and Thomas LINACRE (translator). Libri sex prefulge[n]tissimi ac medicine principis Galeni de sanitate tue[n]da: Thoma Linacro medico Anglico interprete: summa cum diligentia impressi omnibusq[ue] erroribus purgati.
[colophon:] Venice, heirs of Alessandro Bindoni for Giovanni Battista Pederzano, 6 July 1523. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black with a nearly full-page woodcut, woodcut initials in the text. The title page is set in two sizes of gothic rotunda type, marginalia set in a smaller size of gothic rotunda type. Text set in roman type with occasionally passages in Greek. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards, sewn on 3 alum-tawed leather thongs laced through the joints, alum-tawed leather ties, a manuscript title and a later paper label with "1522" on the spine and a manuscript title at the foot edge. [4], XCIX, [1] ll. Full description

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. Theatrum mundi, et temporis in quo non solum precipuae horum partes describuntur, & ratio metiendi eas traditur, sed accomodatissimis figuris sub oculos legentium facile ponuntur.
Venice, Giovanni Battista Somasco, 1588. 4to. With Somasco's Sagittarius device on the title-page, 144 full-page woodcuts (particularly circular diagrams, dials and figures of the constellations, but also hemispherical and terrestrial maps and other cosmographical and astronomical figures), 1 large folding table ("Canon sexagenarius"), several full-page or smaller tables in the text and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Lacking the moving volvelles. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title (faded) on spine. [16], 478, [2] pp. Full description

GEHEMA, Jan Abraham von. Grouwelijke medicijnse moortmiddelen van aderlaten, koppen, purgeren, clisteren, juleppen, en verswakkende hertsterckingen, waer door donbedachtsame genees- en heelmeesters (geen rechtschapene practisijns synde) soo veele duysent onschudige menschen jammerlijck vant leven ter dood helpen. ... Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaeld.
Including:
- Den hervormden apotheker, voorstellende een bequaem project, hoe en in wat voor gestalte de hedendaeghsche apotheecken billyk te reformeren en naer een rationali medendi methodo, die thans by alle verstandige en conscientieuse medicijns aengenomen is, te formeren waren. ... Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.
- Diaetetica rationalis; dat is, op onloochenbare vaste principien, gesonder verstandts, en waerer experientie welgegronde levens-ordre, waer door een ieder mensche in sijnen standt, sijn gesondtheyt bewaeren, en een leven, vry van veelerley swaericheden, hier op aerden leyden kan. ... Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.
The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1690.
With: (2) HUBER, Ulrik (editor). Specimen philosophiae civilis et studendi bonis libris. Continet excerpta Aristotelica e Libris ad Nicomachum, Cartesii de Affectibus librum, Institutionem reipublicae, cum excerptis Ovidianis. Ulricus Huber rationem instituti in praefatione reddit.
Franeker, J. Gyselaer, 1686. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 8vo. Ad 1: with 3 title pages, each with one of 2 woodcut decorations, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. [20], 140; 169-538, [14] pp. Full description

[GESSNER, Conrad]. Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, de remediis secretis.
Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1554. 16mo (12.5 x 8 cm). With dozens of woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [44], [4 blank], 499, [8], [5 blank] pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Consolatio navigantium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1657.
With:
(2) IDEM. Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655.
(3) IDEM. Tractatus de medicina universali, sive auro potabili vero, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.
(4) IDEM. Miraculi mundi continuatio, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.
(5) IDEM. Tractatus de natura salium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.
(6) IDEM. Tractatus de signatura salium, metallorum, et planetarum, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659. 6 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 4 with 3 engraved folding plates.
Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 4 cords, gold fillets on spine and sides. 96; 28, [4 blank]; 75, [2], [3 blank]; 133, [3 blank]; [16], 96; 44, [4 blank] pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Arca thesauris opulentia, sive appendix generalis omnium librorum hactenus editorum, ... in decem centurias distributum [= prima centuria]. [Vol. 2:] Opulenti thesauri, et arcae thesaurariae ... centuria secunda.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1660-1661. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Later boards covered with marbled paper, later printed title on spine. 190, [2]; 149 pp. Full description

[GUIBERT (GUYBERT), Philbert]. Les oeuvres du medecin charitable.
Paris, Jean Gesselin, 1634. 8vo. With engraved title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [22], [2 blank], “718”[=710], [2], 24 pp. Full description

HAGENDORN, Ehrenfried. Tractatus physico-medicus de catechu, sive terra Japonica, in vulgus dicta ad normam Academiae Naturae-Curiosorum.
Jena, Johannus Bielk, (printed by Samuel Krebs), 1679. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting a Japanese man holding a shield with the inscription: "E.H.D. Catechu" designed by C. Nisius. Contemporary boards, wholly untrimmed. [22], 82 pp. Full description

HAMMEN, Ludwig von. De herniis dissertatio academica. Accedunt de crocodilo ac vesicae, mendaci calculo, epistolae et responsiones.
Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1681. 12mo. With a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary blue wrappers. [6], 135, [1 blank] pp. Full description