Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

PEDEMONTANUS, Alexius and 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

PFANN, Johann. Biblische Emblemata und Figuren welche in den zweijen verneurten Stuben, dess Hospitals zum heiligen Geist in Nürmberg allen Krancken zu sonderm Trost anstatt der Schrifft sind vorgemalet worden.
[Nuremberg], 1626. Oblong 8vo (13.5 x 18 cm). With engraved title page (4to and partly folded) and 16 engraved emblems within varying baroque frames, with manuscript text below. Contemporary sprinkled paper wrappers. [1], 16 ll. Full description

PIEDMONT, Alexis of (Girolamo RUSCELLI). De secreeten ... inhoudende seer excellente ende wel geapprobeerde remedien, tegen veelderhande krancheden, wonden ende andere accidenten: met de maniere van distilleren, perfumeren, confituyren maecken, te verwen, coloeuren ende gieten.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurensz., 1636. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern sheepskin. 260, [12]; 164, [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PIGRAY, Pierre. Epitome praeceptorum medicinae chirurgiae cum ampla singulis morbis conuenientum remediorum expositione ...
Paris, by the widow of Marc Orry, 1612. 8to. With an engraved title, an engraved portrait of the author, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, 11, [1], 771, [33] pp. Full description

PIGRAY, Pierre and Pieter Rutgersz. VAN NIEUSTADT (translator). Kort begryp van de genees ende heel-konst.
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob Theunisz Lootsman, 1661. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [12], 450, [10] pp. Full description

[POMARIUS (VALERIUS), Petrus]. Enchiridion medicum, dat is: een kort begrijp van den gantschen loop der medicyne.
Amsterdam, widow of Joost Broersz., 1659. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [4], 234, [2 blank] pp. Full description

PORTA, Giovanni Battista della. De hum. Physiognomonia ... De humana physiognomonia libri IIII ...
Vico Equense, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1586. Folio (32.5 x 23 cm). With a full-page engraved portrait of the author on the title page, set within an architectural frame incorporating animal and human heads, a full-page engraved portrait of the dedicatee, 85 engraved illustrations throughout, including four full-page plates, a woodcut diagram of a syllogism, and numerous woodcut historiated initials, headpieces, and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum. [4], 265 (=272) pp. Full description

PORTAL, Paulus. De practyk der vroed'meesters, en vroed'vrouwen, of de wyse van een vrouw' te helpen in haar kinderbaren. Uyt de Franse in de Nederduytse tale overgeset.
Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn. 1690. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author facing the title page and 8 full-page engraved plates of embryos and a placenta. Contemporary vellum, purple library stamp on the front board. [1 blank], [23], 342, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PORZIO, Luca Antonio. In Hippocratis librum de veteri medicina.
Rome, Angelo Bernabò, 1681. 12mo. With 4 illustrations on an engraved folding plate. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [1], [1 blank], [4], 205, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description

PORZIO, Simone. De coloribus oculorum.
Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550. 4to. With 2 large historiated engraved initials. Half vellum (ca. 1900). 57, [3 blank] pp. Full description