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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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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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An example for other pharmacopoeia's

[BATE, Georg]. Pharmacopoea Batheana. Ofte den Apotheek van de heer Georgius Bath M.D. genees-heer van Karel de Tweede en lit van de Londense Societeit...In welke ontrent de tachentig uitgelezene medicamenten, op de order van een alphabeth werden vertoont: zijnde tegenwoordig in 't gebruik van de heeren doctoren tot Londen, en voorts gantsch Engeland door. Uitgegeven door den heer Jac. Shipton,. Waar agter komt Antoni de Heide M.D. Nieuw ligt der apothekers.
Amsterdam, Jan Hartig, 1742. 2 parts in one vol. Beautiful engraved frontispiece of the interior of a pharmacy by Jan Hartig, some woodcut initials and one wooduct tailpiece. Contemporary vellum. (16), 335 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Hawaiian lepers

BECHTINGER, Joseph. Ein Jahr auf den Sandwich-Inseln. (Hawaiische Inseln.) ... Memoiren. - Band I. [all published].
Vienna, for the author (colophon: printed by W. Jacobi), 1869. 8vo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, 7 illustration plates (showing 14 numbered wood-engravings with letterpress captions), 3 woodcuts in the text, and a tinted lithographic folding map. Original publisher's yellow printed-paper wrappers with wood-engraved vignette. [7], [1 blank], 202, [4] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Important for modern medicine

BERGEN, Heinrich von. Versuch einer Monographie der China.
Hamburg, Hartwig &Muller, 1826. 2 volumes. Text volume 4to & atlas volume in royal folio. With 8 hand coloured engraved plates by Gustav Andreas Forsmann, and 5 leaves with 10 folding tables in the atlas volume. Uniform original blue boards, the atlas volume is a portfolio with the plates loosely inserted and remnants of blue closing ties. XI, [1], 348 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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