Medicine & Pharmacy

COMENGE Y FERRER, Luís. Curiosidades médicas precedidas de un discurso sobre el florecimiento de la medicina Española en el siglo XVI y su posterior decadencia.
Madrid, Manuel Ginés Hernández, 1886. 8vo. With 3 lithographed plates (2 folding), reproducing manuscript letters. Modern dark purple half sheepskin, with the original printed front wrapper bound in. 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

COMMERELL, Abbé de, John Coakley LETTSOM (transl.) and Jan Christiaan SEPP (transl.) Bericht wegens de aankweeking en het gebruik van den schaarsheid- of mangel-wortel.
Amsterdam, C.N. Guerin, 1789. 8vo. With 1 folding hand-coloured plate and a woodcut tailpiece of a fruit basket. 19th-century half cloth, Stormont marbled sides. [4], XII, 80 pp. Full description

CORDUS, Valerius. De halosantho seu spermate ceti vulgo dicto, liber nunc primum in lucem abditus.
Zürich, [Jacob Gessner], 1566. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a woodcut initial. Modern paper boards, early marbled edges. [3], 37 ll. Full description

CORDUS, Valerius. Novum … dispensatorium, hoc est, pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio: quam ab ipso olim auctam, nunc à quamplurimis mendis expurgatam in lucem edimus.
Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1563. 12mo. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine reinforced with white paper. [24], 444 pp. Full description

CROON, Petrus. Cocus bonus ofte geestelijcke sinne-beelden ende godtvruchtighe uyt-legginghen op alle de gereetschappen van den kock.
Bruges, Franciscus Beernaerts, [between 1739 and 1762].
With:
(2) CROON, Petrus. Cocus Bonus. Tweede deel, ofte geestelycke bemerckingen op de tafel ende spysen maeltyt.
Bruges, Widow of P.J. Vincent, [between 1731 and 1769]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-1662) mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf as a frontispiece. Further with a woodcut ornament on the title page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with a woodcut ornament on the title page and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with a black title label lettered in gold, simple blind-tooled fillets on the boards, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [18], 207, [1]; "314" [= 312] pp. Full description

DAMIRI, Muhammad ibn Musa al-. Kitab Hayat al-Hayawan [= Book of the life of animals].
Meknes, Morocco, 1267 AH [= 1851 CE]. 4to (19 x 23 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper, brown maghribi script in two hands with important words and phrases in red and blue. With an illuminated headpiece at the start of the text in red, blue, green, and gold. Contemporary gold-tooled red leather with a fore-edge flap. 62 ll. Full description

DE BEUNIE, Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk zyn de profytelykste planten van dit land, ende welk is hun gebruyk zoo in de medicynen als in andere konsten.
With:
(2) DU RONDEAU, François. Mémoires sur la question: quelles sont les plantes les plus utiles des Pays-Bas, & que lest leur usage dans la medicine & dans les arts.
(3) DE BEUNIE, Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk is de beste ende onkostbaerste maniere van vlasse gaeren ende andere vegitabile stoffen swert te verwen, …
Brussels, Antonius d'Ours, 1772. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern blue paper wrappers. 70; 18; 30 pp. Full description

DELACOUR, chirurgien-dentiste. Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades.
Metz, the author (back of the title page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. With slab-serif capitals on the title page and sans-serif capitals in a heading on p. 3. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on the spine. 12 pp. Full description

DEMARLE, Louis-Gustave. Essai sur la coca (erythroxylon coca) du Perou.
Paris, Rignoux, imprimeur de la faculté de médicine, 1862. 4to. Side stitched through two holes. 52 pp. Full description

[DEUX NÈTHES - PHARMACOPOEIA]. VAN DEN ZANDE, J.B.J., et al (ed.). Pharmacopoeia manualis, a concilio medico praefecturae Utriusque Nethae edita.
Antwerpen, Antonius Grangé, 1812. 8vo. 19th-century green half sheepskin, marbled sides. VIII, 208 pp. Full description