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Two of the most important pharmacological and chemical publications of the future Leiden professor of medicine Jacobus le Mort, the predecessor of Boerhaave

MORT, Jacobus le. Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688.
With: IDEM. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with a frontispiece engraved by Adriaan Schoonebeek (with an allegorical scene above and an apothecary and others at work below), originally dated 1684, changed to 1688, and Van der Aas herald angel device on title page. Ad 2: with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils, Van der Aas woodcut herald angel device, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: "Le Mort opera omnia". 14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea Physics & Chemistry
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Two of the main pharmaceutical and chemical works in second editions by the Leiden Professor Jacobus le Mort, the predecessor of Boerhaave

MORT, Jacobus le. Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688.
With: IDEM. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with a frontispiece engraved by Adriaan Schoonebeek (with an allegorical scene above and an apothecary and others at work below), originally dated 1684, changed to 1688, and Van der Aas herald angel device on the title page. Ad 2: with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils, Van der Aas woodcut herald angel device, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: "Le Mort opera omnia". [14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea Physics & Chemistry
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Essays on chronometry resulting from Roquemaurel's circumnavigations
to the Pacific, South East Asia and South America (Brazil)

MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau.
Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1855. With 4 folding plates. With:
(2) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Longitudes chronométriques des principaux points de la cote du Brésil, rapportées au premier méridien de Rio-Janeiro. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1863.
(3) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Positions géographiques des principaux points de la cote orientale de l'Amérique du Sud comprise entre la Guyane Française et le Paraguay. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1868.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary grained red half sheepskin. VIII, 139, [1]; 32; [4], 35, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Brazil China Circumnavigation Instruments & Microscopy Korea Navigation Pacific Islands South America Surinam Technology Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America
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The first work to describe potassium acetate

MÜLLER, Philipp. Miracula chymica et misteria medica. Libris quinque enucleta, quorum summam pagina versa exhibet.
[Wittenberg], Laurens Seuberlich for Clemens Berger, 1611. 12mo. With 12 woodcuts of 19 chemical instruments and retorts in the text, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, the title is printed in red and black.
Later paper boards, red sprinkled edges, in a modern burgundy solander box. [24], "189" [=191], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Alchemy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Physics & Chemistry
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If all the gunpowder in the world were put in a globe of glass or paper
and set on fire all at once, what would happen?

MYDORGE, Claude. Examen du livre des recreations mathematiques et de ses problemes en geometrie, mechanique, optique, & catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées, & restablies plusieurs experiences physique y proposées.
Including:
- La seconde partie des recreations mathematiques. Composee de plusieurs problèmes plaisans & facetieux en faict d'arithmetique, géometrie, astrologie, optique, perspective, mechanique, & chymie, & autres rares secrets non encre veus, ny mis en lumiere.
- La troisieme partie des recreations mathematiques. Composée de faire toutes sortes de fuzées, tant simples que doubles, avec leur composition, le tout representé par figures.
Rouen, Charles Osmont, 1643. 8vo. With numerous woodcut illustrations illustrating the problems. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], [7], [1 blank], 280, 63, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [2], 67-106, [43], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,400
Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks History / 17th Century Magic & Conjuring Mathematics Optics & Perspective Physics & Chemistry
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Learn how to count with the bible

NEEFF, Adriaan de. Cijffer-boeck der heylige schrift. Over de gelden, gewigten, ende maten der Hebreen arithmetisch gereduceerd op gelden, gewigten ende maten onsen lande en tijdt gebruykelijck.
Middelburgh, Gijsbertus Noorman, 1682. Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With woodcut vignette on 2 titles, and at the end of the second work, showing identical blank escutcheons. Contemporary vellum. [14], 63, [1 blank]; [4], 75, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,700
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Mathematics School & Textbooks
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A fine example of an Enlightenment children's book

NEWBURY, John. Philosophie der tollen en ballen; of het Newtoniaansche zamenstel van wysbegeerte, geschikt naar de vatbaarheid der eerste Jeugd, en gemeenzaam en vermaaklyk gemaakt door voorwerpen, welke aan haar zeer bekend zyn: bestaande in ses lessen, geleezen voor de Lilliputiaansche Maatschappie, door Tom Telescope.
Middelburg, Christiaan Bohemer, 1768. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing a little boy, Tom Telescope, standing on a table and explaining matter and motion to a group of other small children with some adults present too, a woodcut showing a pair of telescopes, and 8 fine engraved plates showing the solar system, an air-pump and air-gun, globes and armillary spheres, Vesuvius, etc. Contemporary half calf. [12], 134, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Children's Books Physics & Chemistry School & Textbooks Technology
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Reveals the secrets of anamorphosis and trompe l'oeil

NICERON, Jean François. La perspective curieuse, divisée en quatre livres. Avec l'optique et la catoptrique du R.P. Mersenne, mise in lumiere après la mort de l'autheur. Oeuvre tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, sculpteurs, graveurs, & à tous autres qui se meslent du dessein.
Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651-1652. With engraved allegorical title-page by Daret, full-page engraved portrait of Niceron by Michel Lasne, several woodcut diagrams in text and, bound at the end of the book, 49 full-page plates and 1 double-page engraved plate with numerous illustrations of drawing in perspective, in optical illusions and in trompe l'oeil.
With: (2) MERSENNE, Marin. L' optique et la catoptrique.
Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651. With numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in the text. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, gilt double fillet borders on both sides and on the spine. [16], 191, [1]; [12], 134 pp. Full description
€ 11,500
Art & Art History Optics & Perspective
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Of one of the most influential seventeenth-century treatises on perspective

NICERON, Jean-François. La perspective curieuse du reverend P. Niceron. Minime divisee en quatre livres. Loptique et la catoptrique du R. P. Mersenne du meseme ordre, mise en lumiere aprés la mort de lautheur. Oeuvre tres-utile aux peintres, architects, sculpteurs graveurs, & à tous autres qui se meslent du dessein.
Paris, Jean du Puis, 1663.
Including: MERSENNE, Marin. L'optique et la catoptrique du reverend Pere Mersenne minime. Novvellement mise en lumiere, aprés lar mort de lautheur. Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, 1651.
2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With a (partially) folded full page engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece, an engraved title-page, a large woodcut vignette on the title-page, 50 full page engraved plates (including 1 folding), all numbered in a decorative banner in the plate.Contemporary or near contemporary (late 17th or early 18th century) brown calf. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [8], 191, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [10], 134, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Architecture Art & Art History Optics & Perspective
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