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Treating the plague in Ottoman Turkey, from the library of “le Régent”, Philippe d'Orléans

GAUDEREAU, Abbé Martin. Relation des differentes especes de peste que reconnoissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remedes qu'ils prennent pour en empêcher la communication & le progrès; et de ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guerir.
Paris, Jacques Quillau, 1721. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the arms of Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) on both boards, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 134, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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Diseases and deformities in Egypt and Palestine, with 27 plates

GODARD, Ernest. Égypte et Palestine observations médicales et scientifiques.
Paris, Victor Masson et fils (back of half-title: printed by Simon Raçon et Comp.), 1867. 2 volumes: 8vo (text) and 4to (plates). With an engraved author's portrait by Jean Charles Le Vasseur and 27 numbered lithographed plates, each preceded by a leaf with a short letterpress caption. Later black half goatskin, with the original boards (text) and the plates loosely inserted in original publisher's portfolio, printed boards, rebacked with black cloth. [6 incl. portrait], XXXI, [1 blank], 438 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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A forerunner of the pressure cooker and steam engine

HAAN, Andreas Leopold. Proeven met de Papiniaansche pot. Waardoor aangetoond wordt dat, door dezelve, de plantgewassen, dieren en mineralen niet alleen, binnen weinig uuren , door een eenvoudig scheivogt ontbonden, maar ook de zuiverste extracten en wezenlyke zoutten bereidt konnen worden. Uit het Latyn vertaald door een liefhebber der scheikunde. En met een aanpryzend bericht voorzien door Boudewyn Tieboel.
Amsterdam, M. Schalekamp, 1775. 8vo. With a full-page engraving of the "papiaanse pot". Original grey wrappers. XVIII, 60 pp. Full description
€ 700
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With 4 anatomical plates with movable parts

HELLWIG, Christoph von. Nosce te ipsum, vel anatomicum vivum, oder: kurz gefastes doch richtig gestelltes anatomisches werck ... auff begehren zum andernmahl zum druck befördert.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, Hieronymus Philipp Ritschel, [1720]. Folio. With the title printed in red and black, engraved author's portrait on the title page, and 4 engraved anatomical plates with movable parts by Johann Heinrich Werner. Later half vellum, and marbled sides. [8], 42 pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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A court physician in the Sikh Empire: travels, medicine and the Punjab

HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Thirty-five years in the east. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, &c.
Calcutta, [published by the "Bangabasi" Office, 1905]. 8vo. With a wood-engraved portrait of the author, a wood-engraved folding map, and 15 wood-engraved plates. Contemporary blind-stamped green cloth. [4], II, XXIX, [1], 214, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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