Medicine & Pharmacy

[PARIS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas. Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea Parisiensis, ex mandato facultatis medicinae Parisiensis in lucem edita M. Joanne-Baptista-Thoma Martinenq, Decano. Editio auctior & emendatior.
Paris, widow of Pierre Mergé for Guillaume Cavelier Sr., 1748. Large 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette, an ornamental typographical headpiece and some woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold, marbled endpapers and paste-downs, red edges. [16], CXXXII, 268, XXXIV, [6] pp. Full description

[PARIS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. HARDOUIN DE SAINT-JACQUES, Philippe. Codex medicamentarius seu pharmacopoea Parisiensis. Ex mandato facultatis medicine Parisiensis in lucem edita.
Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1645. 4to. 19th-century tanned sheepskin, decorated with ink. [16], “122” [=128], [8] pp. Full description

PAULUS OF AEGINA (ed. by Otto BRUNFELS and Wilhelm KOPP). Pharmaca simplicia, Orthone Brunfelsio interprete.
Including: De ratione victus Gukielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete.
(Colophon: Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, September 1531). With a finely executed woodcut on the title-page repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf.
With:
(2) VALLA, Giorgio. De simplicium natura liber unus.
Strasbourg, Heinrich Sybold, (colophon: August 1528). With the title in a woodcut architectural frame.
(3) ODO OF MEUNG (misattributed to Aemilius MACER). De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani co[m]mentariis, ...
Including: STRABO, Walafrid. Hortulus vernantissimus.
Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon: Johann Faber, 1530).
(4) MARBOD OF ANJOU (with notes and additions by Georg PICTORIUS). De lapidibus pretiosis encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen.
[Freiburg im Breisgau], [Johan Faber], 1531. With a woodcut initial with pictorial decoration. Set in an Aldine-style italic.
4 editions containing 6 works, in 1 volume. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm). Blind -tooled pigskin (Freibrug or vicinity? ca. 1570?) over tapered wooden boards, each board with fields edged by multiple fillets, the outer field containing a frame made from a large roll with allegorical female figures representing the four theological virtues. The front board with owner's initials "A W", and with 2 engraved brass fastenings. [12], 86, [1 blank], [1]; [104]; [4], 108; 55, [1] ll. Full description

PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovitch. Lektsii o rabote bolshikh polushary golovnogo mozga [Lectures on the function of the cerebral hemispheres].
Moscow, Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo, 1927. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, with the publisher's logo on the title-page and half-title, a small cartouche with publication data on the back of the title-page, and 1 graph in the text showing the results of experiments. Original publisher's paper wrappers, letterpress-printed in 2 colours. 372 pp. Full description

PEDEMONTANUS, Alexius (Girolamo RUSCELLI) (Johann Jakob Wecker, translator). De secretis libri sex mira quadam rerum varietatereferti, ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primum translate per Joannem Jacobum Weckerum.
Lyon, Guilelmus Rovellius, 1561. 8vo. Later vellum. 344 [= 342], [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PENA, Pierre and Matthias de LOBEL. Nova stirpium adversaria.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1576. Small folio, index large 4to (29 x 20 cm). Title-page with an elaborately decorated woodcut architectural frame and about 307 (of about 317) woodcut botanical illustrations. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [4], 471, [1 blank], 15, [1 blank], 24, [12 (of 16)] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PHARMACOLOGICAL]. [Medicinal recipes for sexual ailments].
[Germany?, ca. 1857]. Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm). Manuscript in Latin and German. Contemporary half tan cloth. 33, [35], [32 blank] pp. Full description

[PHARMACOPEIA - MADRID]. Pharmacopoeia Matritensis regii, ac supremi Hispaniarum protomedicatus auctoriate, jussu atque auspiciis elaborata. Editio secunda locupletior, en longè emendatior.
Madrid, Antonio Perez de Soto, 1762. 4to. Title printed in red and black with a title-engraving with a view on Madrid engraved by Crutz, with a small portrait in a roundel of the dedicatee, King Carlos III, also engraved by Crutz, and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold, marbled endpapers and paste-downs, red edges. [32], 556 pp. Full description

[PHARMACOPEIA - THE NETHERLANDS]. Pharmacopoea Batava.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805. Large 8vo. With 2 folding tables. Prize-book of the Latin School at Haarlem: polished mottled calf with gilt panel of the city-virgin of Haarlem holding the coat-of-arms of the city as her shield; underneath the motto: Vicit vim virtus, on both sides, ornamental gilt border along the edges of both sides, spine gilt with orange title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, green ties. Complete with the dedication of the Latin school, presenting the book to Jacob Warning, dated Haarlem, 17 Dec. 1817 and signed by the rector and teachers of the school, bound in before the first fly-leaf. [2], L, 304, 34, [13] pp. Full description

[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Oesterreichische provinzial-Pharmakopee...
Vienna, Johan Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1776. 8vo. With a woodcut coat-of-arms on the title-page and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, light brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges. [10], 384, [18] pp. Full description