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First edition printed outside Oxford University, with 6 illustration plates and a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe. One of the great books of 17th-century English medicine

WILLIS, Thomas. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore.
The Hague, Arnold Leers, 1674. 12mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, dated 1674, and 6 folding engraved plates of human stomach and intestines. Contemporary(?) vellum, with a red morocco spine label, red sprinkled edges. [40], 330, [9], [5 blank] pp. Full description
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Scathing critique of the standard German pharmacopoeia that was finally to lead to its reformation. 1672 Dordrecht edition of two works published in Vienna in 1652

ZWELFER, Joannes. Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata. ...
Including: ZWELFER, Joannes. Pharmacopoeia regia, seu dispensaterium ...
Dordrecht, Vincent Caimax, 1672. 2 volumes. 4to. With a general title-page and 2 divisional titles, 5 half-page engravings in vol. 2. Mottled calf over boards, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [6], 472; [473]-876, [36], [8], 66, [2], [8], 239 pp. Full description
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