Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. Theatrum mundi, et temporis in quo non solum precipuae horum partes describuntur, & ratio metiendi eas traditur, sed accomodatissimis figuris sub oculos legentium facile ponuntur.
Venice, Giovanni Battista Somasco, 1588. 4to. With Somasco's Sagittarius device on the title-page, 144 full-page woodcuts (particularly circular diagrams, dials and figures of the constellations, but also hemispherical and terrestrial maps and other cosmographical and astronomical figures), 1 large folding table ("Canon sexagenarius"), several full-page or smaller tables in the text and woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Lacking the moving volvelles. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title (faded) on spine. [16], 478, [2] pp. Full description

GEHEMA, Jan Abraham von. Grouwelijke medicijnse moortmiddelen van aderlaten, koppen, purgeren, clisteren, juleppen, en verswakkende hertsterckingen, waer door donbedachtsame genees- en heelmeesters (geen rechtschapene practisijns synde) soo veele duysent onschudige menschen jammerlijck vant leven ter dood helpen.
Including: - Den hervormden apotheker, voorstellende een bequaem project, hoe en in wat voor gestalte de hedendaeghsche apotheecken billyk te reformeren en naer een rationali medendi methodo, die thans by alle verstandige en conscientieuse medicijns aengenomen is, te formeren waren.
- Diaetetica rationalis; dat is, op onloochenbare vaste principien, gesonder verstandts, en waerer experientie welgegronde levens-ordre, waer door een ieder mensche in sijnen standt, sijn gesondtheyt bewaeren, en een leven, vry van veelerley swaericheden, hier op aerden leyden kan.
The Hague, Pieter Heagen, 1690.
With: (2) HUBER, Ulrik (editor). Specimen philosophiae civilis et studendi bonis libris.
Franeker, J. Gyselaer, 1686. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [20], 140; 169-538, [14] pp. Full description

[GESNER (GESSNER), Conrad]. Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, de remediis secretis.
Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1554. 16mo (12.5 x 8 cm). With dozens of woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [44], [4 blank], 499, [8], [5 blank] pp. Full description

GIRALDINI, Pier Francesco. Discorso sopra la pietra belzuar minerale.
Florence, printed by Zanobi Pignoni (colophon: Niccolò dellAntella, 4 November 1626). 4to. With engraved title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. 106, [8], [2 blank] pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Consolatio navigantium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1657. 8vo.
With:
(2) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655.
(3) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de medicina universali, sive auro potabili vero, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.
(4) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Miraculi mundi continuatio, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658. With 3 engraved folding plates.
(5) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de natura salium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.
(6) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de signatura salium, metallorum, et planetarum, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.
6 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, gold fillets on spine and sides. 96; 28, [4 blank]; 75, [2], [3 blank]; 133, [3 blank]; [16], 96; 44, [4 blank] pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Arca thesauris opulentia, sive appendix generalis omnium librorum hactenus editorum, ... in decem centurias distributum [= prima centuria]. [Vol. 2:] Opulenti thesauri, et arcae thesaurariae ... centuria secunda.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1660-1661. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Later boards covered with marbled paper, later printed title on spine. 190, [2]; 149 pp. Full description

[GUIBERT (GUYBERT), Philbert]. Les oeuvres du medecin charitable.
Paris, Jean Gesselin, 1634. 8vo. With engraved title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [22], [2 blank], “718”[=710], [2], 24 pp. Full description

HAGENDORN, Ehrenfried. Tractatus physico-medicus de catechu, sive terra Japonica, in vulgus dicta ad normam Academiae Naturae-Curiosorum.
Jena, Johannus Bielk, (printed by Samuel Krebs), 1679. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece depicting a Japanese man holding a shield with the inscription: "E.H.D. Catechu" designed by C. Nisius. Contemporary boards, wholly untrimmed. [22], 82 pp. Full description

HEER, Henri de. Spadacrene hoc est Fons Spadanus, ... ut et Observationes medicae ...
Including HEER, Henri de. Observationes medicae, oppido rarae in Spa et Leodii; animadversa, cum medicamentis ...
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1685. 2 works published together. 12mo. 18th-century boards. [24], 159, [17]; [6], 254, [20] pp. Full description

HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Ortus medicinae.
Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. With engraved portrait of Helmont and his son Franciscus Mercurius, surrounded by eight coat of arms of related families.
With: (2) HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Opuscula medica inaudita. Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf, both sides elaborately blind-tooled. [36], 800; [8], 110; 115, [1]; 88 pp. Full description