Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

HEER, Henri de. Spadacrene hoc est Fons Spadanus, ... ut et Observationes medicae ...
Including HEER, Henri de. Observationes medicae, oppido rarae in Spa et Leodii; animadversa, cum medicamentis ...
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1685. 2 works published together. 12mo. 18th-century boards. [24], 159, [17]; [6], 254, [20] pp. Full description

HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Ortus medicinae.
Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. With engraved portrait of Helmont and his son Franciscus Mercurius, surrounded by eight coat of arms of related families.
With: (2) HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Opuscula medica inaudita. Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf, both sides elaborately blind-tooled. [36], 800; [8], 110; 115, [1]; 88 pp. Full description

HIPPOCRATES and Johannes HEURNIUS (editor and translator). Aphorismi Graecè, & Latinè. Brevi enarratione, sidaque interpretatione ita illustrati, ut ab omnibus facilè intelligi possint. Cum historiis, observationibus, cautionibus, & remediis selectis.
[Leiden], ex Officina Plantiniana, by Christopher Raphelengius, 1601. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporay vellum. [1], [1 blank], [14], 512, [16] pp. Full description

IBN SINA (AVICENNA). Canon medicinae [= al-Qanun].
Lyon, Jean Trechsel & Johann Klein, 24 December 1498. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 31 × 42 cm). With a diagrammatic woodcut. Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 4 double supports, one volume with 2 brass clasps (and traces on the other volume). 379; 357 ll. Full description

IBN SINA (AVICENNA) and Gherardo da CREMONA (translator). Liber canonis totius medicine.
(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 1522. 4to. With the title printed in red, set within an elaborate woodcut architectural frame, 115 metal cut decorated initials. Later blind-tooled brown calf, with the contemporary richly blind-tooled brown calf laid down on both boards showing 6 horizontal panels alternating 2 different rolls within an elaborate multi-fillet frame, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, the leather on both boards shows small holes once containing closing ties. [8], 453 ll. Full description

IBN SINA (AVICENNA) and Jacob MANTINO (translator). Avicennae quarta fen primi libri de universali ratione medendi: nunc primum. m. Iacob Mantini medici hebrei: opera Latinate donata.
(colophon:) Venice, Lucantonio Giunti, 8 April 1530. 8vo. With Giunti's printer's device on the title page (a Florentine lily with the L. A. initials). Later vellum with more recent end leaves. 60 ll. Full description

JACOBS, Heyman. Het schat der armen. Oft een medecijn boecxken, dienstelijck voor alle menschen, ... Op een nieu oversien, verbetert, ende vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, [Cornelis Lodewijksz. vander Plasse?], printed by Frans Pels, 1634. 8vo. Modern boards covered with marbled paper. [4], 177, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description

JOHN XXI, Pope. Thesaurus pauperum Petri hispani pontificis romani, philosophi ac medici doctissimi, de medendis morbis humani corporis liber: experimenta particularia per simplicia medicamenta ex probatissimis autoribus, & propriis observationibus collecta, continens.
Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1576. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, Egenolff's woodcut burning heart device below the colophon, 3 woodcut arabesque tailpieces, and 3 woodcut decorated initials (3 different series). With the main text in italic type but the preface in roman. Contemporary limp vellum, faded manuscript title on the spine and the front wrapper. 112, [6] [1 blank (of 2)] ll. Full description

JOHN XXI, Pope. Thesaurus pauperum Petri Hispani pontificis Romani, philosophi ac medici dictissimi, de medendis morbis humani corporis liber: experimenta particularia per simplicia medicamenta ex probatissimis autoribus, & propiis observationibus collecta, continens.
Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1578 8vo. With title-page in red and black, Egenolff's woodcut burning heart device below the colophon, 3 woodcut arabesque tailpieces, and 3 woodcut decorated initials (3 different series). With the main text in italic type but the preface in roman. Modern half sheepskin. 112, [5] ll. Full description

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientiis & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: …
Rome, Biagio Diversin and Zanobio Masotti (printed by Vitale Mascardi), 1654. Folio. With engraved frontispiece by F. Valentius, letterpress title page printed in red and black with engraved double publisher's device, full-page engraved plate with the portrait of Emperor Ferdinand IV, 34 mostly full-page engraved illustrations, 215 woodcut illustrations and about 50 letterpress tables. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [32], 618, [28] pp. Full description