Medicine & Pharmacy

LEMNIUS, Levinus. De gli occulti miracoli, & uarii ammaestramenti delle cose della natura, con probabili ragioni, et artificiosa congiettura confermati.
Venice, Lodovico degli Avanzi, 1563. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page, and some woodcut initials. Near-contemporary limp vellum. [15], [1 blank], 156 ll. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.
Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards. [16], 473, [22], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LESPLEIGNEY, Thibault. De usu pharmaceutices in consarcinandis medicame[n]tis, Isagoge. ....
[Paris], Jean Ruel, 1543. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). Set in 3 sizes of roman type, the smallest including special pharmacological characters. Modern sheepskin parchment, gilt edges. 229, [11] pp. Full description

LEWIS, William. An experimental history of the materia medica, or of the natural and artificial substances made use of in medicine: containing a compendious view of their natural history, an account of their pharmaceutic properties, and an estimate of their medicinal powers.
London, H. Baldwin, 1761. Large 4to. Later calf, blind-ruled boards and spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold. XXII, [2], 591, [32] pp. Full description

LINDER, Johannes (Johan LINDELSTOLPE). De venenis in genere, & in specie exercitatio, videlicet eorum natura, & in corpus agendi modo: ... Juxta veterum quorundam & recentiorum dogmata, ad solidorum & fluidorum corporis organici leges mechanicas, deducta & explicata.
Leiden, Andreas Dyckhuisen, 1707. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, boards covered with sprinkled paper, red spine label lettered in gold. 268 pp. [pp. 1-16 with the index missing]. Full description

LISTER, Martin. Dissertatio de humoribus, in qua veterum ac recentiorum medicorum ac philosophorum opiniones & sententiae examinantur.
Amst., (heirs of Johannes II) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1711. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [18], 486, [24] pp. Full description

LIS, Wouter van. Pharmacopoea Galeno- chemico- medica probatissimis auctoribus, ratione & experiential fundata. Meng- schei- en geneeskonstige artseny-winkel; op de beste schryvers, de rede en ondervinding gebouwt; ... benevens een korte verhandeling, hoe met weinig genees-middelen de grootste ziekten worden genezen; als mede ... een verklaring van de voornaamste konstwoorden en characters.
Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by V.D. after A. Hordyk, title-page in red and black, with vignette in a roundel: the sun surrounded by the motto "Herbarum subiecta potential nobis", one full-page plate with the chemical symbols, printed in two columns. Half calf , gold-tooled spine, spine label lettered in gold. [34)], 436, [60] pp. Full description

[LONDON - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS]. Pharmacopoeia collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis. M.DCC.IX. Editio altera.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (colophon: printed by G. Woodfall), 1817. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, title label on spine, marbled sides. XXXVI, 198 pp. Full description

MACHOLD, Joseph (Josef). Zehn tafeln zur anatomie des Pferdes . . .
Vienna, the author "in Commission bei F. Paternos Nachfolger" (printed by Adolf Holzhausen), [1879]. Oblong 1mo (35×49 cm). With 10 numbered chromo-lithographed and double-tinted lithographed plates (35×49 cm), loose as issued. Original publisher's printed front wrapper preserved, back wrapper lacking. In a modern clamshell box. 15, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

[MADRID - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Farmacopea en Castellano, ó coleccion de las fórmulas mas usuales y acreditadas de la Matritense y Española; con un breve Catalogo de algunas composiciones magistrales del Memorial farmacéutico de Cadet de Gassicourt y otros.
Madrid, D. Cosme Martinez, 1823. 4to. With an engraved allegorical vignette on the title-page. Marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label, red edges, marbled endpapers. VIII, 403 pp. Full description