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By one of the most important pioneers of medical biography

ELOY, N.F.J. Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne. Ou mémoires disposés en ordre alphabétique pour server à lhistoire de cette science, et à celle des medecins, anatomistes, botanistes, chirurgiens, et chymistes de toutes nations.
Mons, H. Hoyois, 1778. 4 volumes. Large 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece; woodcut printers devices, engraved and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges, marbled endpapers [6], VIII, XII, 745, [2]; [4], 650; [4], 648; [4]; 626, [2] pp. Full description
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Exceptionally rare Dutch edition of Eustachius' complete collection of anatomical plates

EUSTACHIUS, Bartolomaeus and Andreas BONN (editor). De ontleedkundige plaaten van B. Eustachius.
Amsterdam, Lodewijk van Es, [1798]. Folio (ca. 37 x 24.5 cm). With 47 engraved plates on 41 leaves. Early 19th-century quarter vellum, brown marbled paper sides, with the author in manuscript at the head of the spine. [2], [51] ll. and 47 engraved plates on 41 leaves. Full description
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One of the most important works in the history of dentistry

FAUCHARD, Pierre. Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.
Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf. XXIV, 494, [8], [2 blank]; [20], 424 pp. Full description
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Revised edition of a pharmaceutical work with over 800 recipes

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica ... cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & pharmacopoeis perutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus ...
Nürnberg, Johann Friedrich Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Agenda 12mo (16.5 x 7 cm). With double-page title page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf. [24], 468, [48] pp. Full description
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Re-issue of a greatly enlarged edition of a pharmaceutical work with over 800 recipes

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica; in qua octingentorum, contra omnis generis morbos probatissimorum selectissimorumque medicamentorum, in nullo dispensatorio obviorum, sed partim ex optimis & hoc tempore celeberrimis practicis desumptorum, partim ab amicis communicatorum, partim ex privatis manuscriptis erutorum, partim denique propria industria inventorum, fidelis & accurata descriptio, ordine, ut vocant, alphabetico, insculpta legitur. Cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & & pharmacopoeisperutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus.
Nuremberg, Johann Fr. Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Narrow 12mo. With a folded title page printed in red and black, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments.19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine, with dark green title-label. [22], 468, [48] pp. Full description
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The flora and geology of Marienbad, with contributions by Goethe and Friedrich August II

FRIEDRICH AUGUST II, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE and Karl Joseph HEIDLER. Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, ... ergänzt, und mit einem anhange über die andern naturhistorischen Verhältnisse der Curortes.
Prague, Kronberger and Weber ("Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Söhne"), 1837. 8vo. With 5 lithographed plates numbered I-II, [III], IV-V, namely a frontispiece view by Sandtner, 3 further illustration plates (1 hand-coloured) and a hand-coloured folding petrographic map of Marienbad. Also with a folding letterpress table. Contemporary brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. X, 203, [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Second edition in English of Fuller's first pharmacopoeia

FULLER, Thomas. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines, containing a thousand select prescripts, answering most intentions of cure. To which are added, useful scholia, a catalogue of remedies, and copious index, for the assistance of young physicians.
London, William Innys, 1714. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue (1684-1756) after Joseph Tymewell (fl. 1717-1737). Contemporary calf. [18], 14, 512, [32] pp. Full description
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One of the Amsterdam editions of a very popular pharmacopoeia

FULLER, Thomas. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chilias, in qua remediorum elegantium & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes fere medendi intentiones accommodata, candidade proponuntur.
Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1731. 8vo. Title in red and black with woodcut device. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, red edges, marbled endpapers. [32], 382, [34] pp. Full description
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