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Baglivi's complete works: including his famous and influential treatise on tarantulas

BAGLIVI, Giorgio. Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio septima.
Lugduni [= Lyon], Anisson & Joannis Posuel, 1710. 4to. With 3 engraved plates, including the famous one showing two tarantulas, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text, numerous woodcut decorated initials, some headpieces built up from typographic ornaments and some floral woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf. [6], XXXIX, [11], 854, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Second edition (the first published in the Netherlands) of a pharmaceutical textbook
by the first professor of chemistry at Utrecht

BARCHUSEN, Joannes Conradus. Pharmacopoeus synopticus. Plerasque medicaminum compositions, ac formulas, eorumque dextram tam chemicam quam Galenicam conficiendi & componendi methodum exhibens. Quin et singular medicinae atque pharmaciae studiosis hac in arte precipuenecessaria demonstrans. Editio secunda, correcta ...
Utrecht, François Halma, 1696. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing the interior of an apothecary shop by Sluiter after J.G., Halmas woodcut device, head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary paper over thin boards. [16], 250, [6] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Collection of Greek, Arabic, Latin, Egyptian, and Asian medical and chemical theories, both ancient and contemporary, including Chinese acupunture

BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad. De medicinae origine et progressu dissertationes. In quibus medicinorum sectae, institutiones, decreta, hypotheses, praeceptiones, &c. Ab initio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora traduntur.
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Paddenburg and Willem Kroon, 1723. 4to. With the title-page printed in red and black with a small woodcut ornamental vignette, and two woodcut illustrations in the text. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, a large woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and woodcut ornamental tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper sides, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold (now faded), red edges. [1], [1 blank], [14], 679, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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The first edition published in Italy of an important pharmacological handbook

BATE, George. Pharmacopoeia Bateana, seu pharmaca è praxi Georgii Batei, ... excerpta, cum viribus & dosibus annexis. Nec non Arcana Goddardiana; & Orthotonia medicorum observata: item Tabula posologica; atque appendix ad Pharmacopoeiam Bateanam, ex autographo eximii auctoris. Cum indice morborum, curationum, &c. Huic tandem novissimae edition accessit Jacobi Le Mortii chymia vindicata, & comparata, philosophia medica, atque theoria hominis, & morborum.
Venice, Giovanni Gabriele Hertz, 1703. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece after Adriaan Schoonebeeck. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. [8], 337 pp. Full description
€ 780
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First true Amsterdam edition of the Pharmacopoeia Bateana

BATE, George. Pharmacopoeia Bateana, quâ nongenta circiter pharmaca, pleraque omnia è praxi Georgii Batei ... excerpta ... cum viribus, & dosibus annexis. ... Huic accesserunt Arcana Goddardiana, item Orthotonia medicorum observata: et Tabula posologica ... Cum indice morborum, curationum &c. Curâ J.S. Pharmacopoei Lond. Editio quarta cum appendice ex autographo eximii authoris nunc primum desumpta.
Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1709. 8vo. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, blue sprinkled edges. [8], 240 pp. Full description
€ 400
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First and only edition of the Portuguese translation of the Pharmacopoeia Bateana

BATE, Georgius. Pharmacopea Bateana, na qual se contem quasi oytocentos medicamentos tirados da pratica de Jorge Batea ... escrita pela ordem alphabetica, Traduzida de Lati mem Portuguez ... por D. Caetano de S. Antonio ...
Lisbon, Officina real Deslandesiana, 1713. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Calf over boards. (8), 310 pp. Full description
€ 675
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