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Third edition of the Utrecht Pharmacopoea: interesting interleaved copy
with many annotations and extra prescriptions in contemporary handwriting

[UTRECHT - PHARMACOPEIA]. Pharmacopoea ultrajectina nova.
Utrecht, Jacob van Poolsum, 1749. 8vo. With engraved printers device by J. Goeree, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces and 2 engraved tables with the chemical symbols of the various ingredients. Later half pigskin, boards covered with sprinkled yellow paper. [8], 240, [20] pp. Full description
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Two important works on hearing and the ear

VALSALVA, Antonio Maria. Opera. Hoc est tractatus de aure humana editione ... et dissertationes anatomicae, ... Omnia recensuit, & auctoris vitam addidit Joannes Baptista Morgagnus.
Leiden, Johannes Hasebroek, 1742. With title-page printed in red and black and 13 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) DUVERNEY, Guichard Joseph. Tractatus de organo auditus, continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium.
Nürnberg, printed by Johann Zieger for Johann Michael Spörlin, 1684. With 16 folding engraved plates, unsigned, but attributed to Sebastien le Clerc (1637-1714). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary vellum. 40, [10], 143, [19], 163-203, [1 blank]; [12], 48 pp. Full description
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Rare printed list of labels for use in pharmacies for sale

VAN RIJN VAN ALKEMADE, J. Lijst van Apotheek-etiquetten, bestaande zoowel uit de officieele als uit de meest gebruuikelijke officinale namen of synoniemen der geneesmiddelen volgens de Pharmacopoea Neerlandica, editio altera, en in verband met Art. 6 der Wt van 1 Juni 1865, Staatsbl. no. 61.
The Hague, J. Smulders & Comp, ca. 1872-1875. 4to. Blue wrappers. 22 pp. Full description
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Medical treatise on problems of the human oesophagus (gullet)

VENEL, Jean-André. Nouveaux secours pour les corps arrêtés dans l'oesophage; ou description de quatre instrumens plus propres qu'aucun des anciens moyens à retirer ces corps par la bouche.
Lausanne, François Grasset & compagnie, 1769. 12mo (16.5 x 9 cm). With a folding engraved plate by Chovin after designs by the author. Modern boards. 42, [4] pp. Full description
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Performing surgery and curing diseases in the East and West Indies, mostly based on Galen and Hippocrates

VERBRUGGE, Johannes. Examen chirurgicum, oder vollkommene praxis chirurgico-medica in welcher nebst einer kurtzen, iedoch vollständigen anatomie alle chirurgicalische fundamenta ...
Dresden, Johann Christoph Zimmerman, 1704. 8vo. Contemporary boards. [16], 608, [32] pp. Full description
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The Viennese pharmacopoeia, with an appendix for the Austrian Netherlands

[VIENNA - LOUVAIN - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Dispensatorium pharmaceuticum Austriaco-Viennense, in quo hodierna die usualiora medicamenta secundum artis regulas componenda visuntur.
Leuven, Joannes Franciscus van Overbeke, 1774. 8vo. Contemporary cat's paw calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [26], 395, [45], XXVI, IX, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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On the characteristics of and trade in Cinchona bark

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.
Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XII, 120 pp. Full description
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First edition printed outside Oxford University, with 6 illustration plates and a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe. One of the great books of 17th-century English medicine

WILLIS, Thomas. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore.
The Hague, Arnold Leers, 1674. 12mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, dated 1674, and 6 folding engraved plates of human stomach and intestines. Contemporary(?) vellum, with a red morocco spine label, red sprinkled edges. [40], 330, [9], [5 blank] pp. Full description
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Scathing critique of the standard German pharmacopoeia that was finally to lead to its reformation. 1672 Dordrecht edition of two works published in Vienna in 1652

ZWELFER, Joannes. Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata. ...
Including: ZWELFER, Joannes. Pharmacopoeia regia, seu dispensaterium ...
Dordrecht, Vincent Caimax, 1672. 2 volumes. 4to. With a general title-page and 2 divisional titles, 5 half-page engravings in vol. 2. Mottled calf over boards, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [6], 472; [473]-876, [36], [8], 66, [2], [8], 239 pp. Full description
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