Categories
Shopping cart (0 items € 0)
Advanced search

Medicine & Pharmacy

Rare herbal intended for apothecaries

[HERBAL]. Nöthige, zuverlässige und kurze Nachricht von denenjenigen Stücken aus dem Pflanzenreiche, welche in den Apotheken der meisten Länder Europens aufbehalten werden müssen, zum Gebrauche der Apotheken verfertiget und dem Drucke übergeben.
Dresden, Johann Nikolaus Gerlach and son, 1764. 8vo. With an engraved plate showing the annual flowering plant Chenopodium botrys. Contemporary boards, spine strengthened with marbled paper. [8], 724, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Second edition, with a new Appendix, of the Dutch translation
of an influential German manual on pharmacology for beginners

HERMBSTÄDT, Sigismund Frederik. Catechismus der apothecars-kunst, of, de eerste grondbeginselen der artsenijmengkunde, voor eerstbeginnenden opgesteld. Aanhangsel van den catechismus der apothecars-kunst.
Amsteldam, J.B. Elwe, 1813. 8vo. With a folding engraved plate (160 x 125 mm.) of a Toestel om luchtvormige vloeistoffen op te vangen (a device to catch vaporized liquids), facing p. 302. Blue paper over thin boards as published, with rests of a printed title label on spine. Uncut copy (partly unopened). [1], [blank], [2], 320 pp. = 324 pp. Full description
€ 350
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Quick remedies for common illnesses of the traveller

HERTODT, Matthias Franciscus ab. Medicus euporistus duodecim medicamentorum generalium supellectile e materia passim obvia instructus ...
The Hague, Guillaume de Voys, 1711. With 1 engraved plate. Title-page in red and black, with woodcut device. Contemporary calf with gold-tooled spine. [12], 9-170, [2] pp. Full description
€ 750
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Early Latin edition of the Hippocratic corpus

HIPPOCRATES and Janus CORNARIUS (translator). Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, per Ianum Cornarium Medicum Physicum Latina lingua conscripta, & recognita.
Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, 1558. Folio. With Frobens woodcut printers device on the title page, repeated on the otherwise blank verso of the final leaf, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 804, [116] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Order Inquire Terms of sale

"The first scientific study of the teeth and basic to all modern dentistry"

HUNTER, John. Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ... Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert / Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption ("Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson"). Contemporary tree-marbled boards. XXII, 213, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Greek and Arabic physicians on pathology and therapeutics

IBN SARABIYUN, Yahya (SERAPIO the elder). Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, Therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis Libri VII. partim Albano Torino Vitodurano paraphraste, partim Gerardo iatro Cremonensi metaphraste.
Basel, Heinrich Petri, (colophon: March 1543). Folio (20.5 x 29 cm). 17th century black vellum, made from an earlier liturgical music manuscript. [24], 491, [1] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Complete book III of 1498 edition of Ibn Sina’s great masterpiece, in contemporary Renaissance bindings

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
€ 125,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale

10 Mediaeval works on health, medicine, food and wine in a rare early edition, including notes by Ibn Sina

IBN SINA (AVICENNA), Maynus de MAYNIS, Arnaldus de VILLANOVA, [Roger BACON] et al. Regimen sanitatis Magnini Mediolanensis ... Insuper opusculu[m] De flebothomia editum ... Reginaldo de Villa Nova. Additur quoq[ue] Astronomia Hippocratis ... de variis egritudinibus et morbis. Item Secreta Hippogratis. Item Averrois De venenis. Ite[m] Quid pro quo apothecariorum ... Nicolaum ... Cum no[n]nullis insuper Avicenne: ...
[Lyon, Barthélemy Trot] (colophon: Lyon, printed by Jacques Myt, 6 February 1517). Small 4to (19 x 14 cm). With title-page in red and black with Trot's woodcut publisher's device, 12 decorated woodcut initials plus 3 repeats. 17th-century(?) calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. CI, [3] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale
366 books found / Show all