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One of the Venice editions of a very popular pharmacopoeia with three additional pharmaceutical texts

FULLER, Thomas Pharmacopoeia extemporanea sive praescriptorum chilias ...
Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.
With:
(2) FRAUNDORFFER, Philippus. Tabula Smaragdina Medico-Pharmaceutica ...
Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.
(3) CHRISTIANUS, Wolfgang. Thesaurus Ludovicianus, sive compendium materiae med. ...
Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.(4) JACKSON, Josephus. Enchiridion medicum practicum, sive tractatus de morborum praxis ...
Venice, F. & N. Pezzana, 1776.
4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. The 4 title-pages with identical woodcut vignettes. Vellum over thin boards, manuscript title on spine. XXXII, 302, [2 blank]; 184; 79, [1 blank]; 112 pp. Full description
€ 650
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Fuller’s pharmacopeia together with three other popular pharmaceutical works

FULLER, Thomas. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chillias, ... Editio nova.
Including:
FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica.
CHRISTIAN, Wolfgang. Thesaurus Ludovicianus, sive compendium materiae med. selectum ex. B. Ludovici pharmacia.
JACKSON, Joseph. Enchiridion medicum practicum, sive tractatus de morborum praxi.
Venice, Francesco Pezzana, 1783. 8vo. 4 works published as 1. Contemporary tree calf, richly gold-tooled spine. XXXII, 264; 152; 71, [1 blank]; 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 500
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Original edition of a French manual on the arrangement of the medica materia

FÉE, Antoine Laurent Apollinaire. Cours dhistoire naturelle pharmaceutique, ou histoire des substances usitées dans la thérapeutique, les arts et léconomie domestique.
Paris, Imprimerie de Decourchant (printed in the page facing the title-page), 1828. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. Both volumes bound in contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, blind-tooled spines, red morocco spine labels with the title in gold and a gilt-stamped library stamp of the Medical Society, Edinburg, on the top of both spines. [4], XXVI, [2], 659; VII, 822, [2] pp. Full description
€ 250
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A doubtful comedy mocking apothecaries

[GAETE, Hendrik van de]. De ontmantelde apotheker, met de gefopte hoorndrager, blyspel.
Gouda, heirs of Lucas Kloppenburg, after 1712. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting the last scene of the comedy and a woodcut title-vignette. Disbound in modern blue paper wrapper. [16], 29, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 350
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Rare second Latin edition of Galen's De sanitate tuenda, his first work translated directly from the original Greek

GALENUS (GALEN), Claudius and Thomas LINACRE (translator). Libri sex prefulge[n]tissimi ac medicine principis Galeni de sanitate tue[n]da: Thoma Linacro medico Anglico interprete: summa cum diligentia impressi omnibusq[ue] erroribus purgati.
[colophon:] Venice, heirs of Alessandro Bindoni for Giovanni Battista Pederzano, 6 July 1523. 4to. Title-page with a nearly full-page woodcut, woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards, a manuscript title and a later paper label with "1522" on the spine and a manuscript title at the foot edge. [4], XCIX, [1] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
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Richly illustrated 16th-century atlas on celestial and terrestrial physics and their influence on medicine

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
€ 6,000
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Famous satirical poems advocated a plan for providing dispensaries for the relief of the sick poor,
as a protection against the greed of apothecaries.

[GARTH, Samuel]. The dispensary. A poem. In six cantos. The ninth edition. With several descriptions and episodes never before printed.
London, printed for J.T. and sold by Tho. Astley, 1726. 12mo. With frontispiece and 6 full-page plates, one for each of the cantos engraved by Lud. Du Guernier (included in the collation), many woodcut head- and tailpieces. Calf over boards, gold-tooled spine. [24], 84, 36 pp. Full description
€ 350
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First edition of a rare manual on culinary carving, with 33 plates

[GASTRONOMY - CARVING]. De cierlycke voorsnydinge aller tafel-gerechten; onderwijsende hoe allerhande spijzen, zo wel op de vork als zonder dezelve, aardiglik konnen voorgesneden, en in bequame ordre omgedient worden. Alles met zinlicke konst-platen afgebeelt.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1664. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates (1 folding, 31 full-page). Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 96 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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