Medicine & Pharmacy

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

[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

GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio altera revisa & aucta.
Leiden, Coenraad Wishoff & Georgius Jac. Wishoff, Conr. Fil., 1752. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title-page and 3 interesting historiated woodcut initials. Full calf over boards. (16), 437 (pp. 422-432 numb. 522-532), (19) pp. Full description

GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum.
Leiden, Conrad Wishoff, 1739. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, woodcut title-vignette, woodcut initials. Contemporary calf. [12], 388 pp. Full description

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

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

GENESY, Amedeo. Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. ... Nuova edizione.
With: (2) IDEM. La vite piramidale. ... Seconda edizione.
Torino, Francesco Casanova (back of title-page: printed by Vincenzo Bona), 1891. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut frontispiece showing the Fresia Grossa variety of grape vine and a fruit tree, each volume with several woodcut illustrations in the text and with a publishers catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publishers printed paper wrappers. [2], X, 200; 64 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

[GHANA - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [Photo album of the British Gold Coast Colony in the early 1910s, with an emphasis on the medical services].
[Ghana, early 1910s]. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. With 96 silver gelatin photographs (7 x 9.5 cm), mounted in an album and captioned in English below. Contemporary blue cloth photo album. 24 ll. Full description

[GHENT - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmacopoea Gandavensis nobilissimi senatûs monitu concinnata, ejusque jussu edita.
Ghent, Joannis Meyer, [1756].
With: (2) [GHENT - TAXA]. Ordonnantie van heer ende weth der stad Gend op den taux der drogue ende medicamenten raekende de pharmacie van de apothecarissen der gemelde stad.
Ghent, Jan Meyer, [1757].
2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with a tulip in 5 of the 7 compartments, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [14], 274, [30]; 54, [2] pp. Full description