Medicine & Pharmacy

LEMERY, Nicolas. Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples, contenant leurs noms, origine, choix, principes, vertus, étimologies; & ce qu'il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les végétaux & dans les minéraux,...
Paris, for D'Houry, 1759. Large 4to. With an engraved author's portrait and 25 full-page engraved plates, each divided into 16 numbered compartments showing plants (24 plates), or animals (1 plate).Contemporary half-calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. [4], XXIV, 846 pp. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura duobus libris explicata, quae studioso avidoque lectori non tam usui sunt futura, quam oblectamento.
Antwerp, Willem Simon (colophon: Gillis Coppens van Diest), 1559. 8vo. With Simons woodcut device on the title-page and a woodcut coat of arms on title-page of the second part. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf. [16], 192 ll. Full description

MORT, Jacobus le. Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.Leiden, Petrus vander Aa, 1688. With a frontispiece engraved by Adriaan Schoonebeek (with an allegorical scene above and an apothecary and others at work below), originally dated 1684, changed to 1688, and Vander Aas herald angel device on title-page.
With: MORT, Jacobus Le. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.
Leiden, Petrus vander Aa, 1688. 8vo. With beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils.
Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: "Le Mort opera omnia".      [14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp. Full description

MORT, Jacobus le. Idea actionis corporum. Motum intestinum praesertim fermentationem delineans.
Leiden, Frederik Haaring, 1693. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, blue edges. [8], 172 pp. Full description

LESPLEIGNEY, Thibault. De usu pharmaceutices in consarcinandis medicame[n]tis, Isagoge. ....
[Paris], Jean Ruel, 1543. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). Set in 3 sizes of roman type, the smallest including special pharmacological characters. Modern sheepskin parchment, gilt edges. 229, [11] pp. Full description

LEWIS, William. An experimental history of the materia medica, or of the natural and artificial substances made use of in medicine: containing a compendious view of their natural history, an account of their pharmaceutic properties, and an estimate of their medicinal powers.
London, H. Baldwin, 1761. Large 4to. Later calf, blind-ruled boards and spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold. XXII, [2], 591, [32] pp. Full description

[LIÈGE - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [COLLEGIUM MEDICINAE]. Pharmacopoea Leodiensis in qua describuntur medicamenta ... in tres partes distributa. In prima simplicia omnia. In altera composita Galenica. In tertia chimica remedia.
Liège, Everard Kints, 1741. 4to. With title-page in red and black with the woodcut bearing from the coat of arms of the city of Liege, and the engraved arms of the dedicatee (the Bishop of Liège) facing the dedication. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, rebacked (gold-tooled spine). [2 blank], [18], 243, [13] pp., including the engraved arms of the dedicatee. Full description

LINDER, Johannes (Johan LINDELSTOLPE). De venenis in genere, & in specie exercitatio, videlicet eorum natura, & in corpus agendi modo: ... Juxta veterum quorundam & recentiorum dogmata, ad solidorum & fluidorum corporis organici leges mechanicas, deducta & explicata.
Leiden, Andreas Dyckhuisen, 1707. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, boards covered with sprinkled paper, red spine label lettered in gold. 268 pp. [pp. 1-16 with the index missing]. Full description

[LISBON - PHARMACOPOEIA]. PAIVA, Manoel Joaquim Hendriques de. Farmacopéa Lisbonense ou collecção dos símplices, preparações, e composições mais efficazes, e de maior uso. Segunda impressão mais accrescentada, e corregida.
Lisbon, patriarcal de Joaõ Procopio Correa da Silva, 1802. 8vo. Later calf in 18-century style, gold-tooled frame on the boards, gold-tooled spine, red morroco title label. [32], 288, [2] pp. Full description

LISTER, Martin. Dissertatio de humoribus, in qua veterum ac recentiorum medicorum ac philosophorum opiniones & sententiae examinantur.
Amst., (heirs of Johannes II) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1711. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [18], 486, [24] pp. Full description