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One of the most popular 17th-century authors on health and sickness,
with a remarkably modern societal approach

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Alle de wercken. Zo in de medicyne als chirurgie.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz Schipper, [1656]. 4 works (some with subdivisions) in 1 volume. Large 4to.(27 x 20.5 cm). With a richly engraved illustrated title-page (with general title and undated imprint for the whole collection) drawn by Crispijn van de Passe the younger and engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, and 8 letterpress title-pages for the 4 separate publications (also issued separately), all dated 1656, plus 2 divisional title-pages without imprint. With 55 engravings in the text and 3 full-page engraved human anatomical plates, woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman type with incidental italic and textura, plus occasional words in Greek. Containing:
(1) Schat der gesontheydt.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1656. In 2 volumes.
(2) Schat der ongesontheydt, ofte genees-konste van de sieckten.
Amsterdam, (vol. 1 only: Jan Jacobsz. Schipper), 1656. In 2 volumes (title-page of vol. 2, on (i)2r, while (i)1v, the last page of vol. 1, has a catchword pointing to (i)2r). Each of the 3 appendices at the end has its own divisional title, without imprint.
(3) Inleydinge tot de Hollandtsche genees-middelen. Ofte Kort bericht, dat elck landt ghenoegh heeft tot onderhoudt van het leven ende de gesondtheydt der inwoonders.
[and with its own title-page on C4r and continuing the same series of page numbers:] Steen-stuck. Aenwijsende den oorspronck, teyckenen, t voorkomen, en ghenesen van steen en graveel.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1656.
(4) Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen. Met alderhande historien verlicht, ende met nieuwe curieuse platen verçiert. De platen van de aderen, slagh-aderen, ende zenuwen, &c. die in den voorgaenden druck seer onordentelijck zijn gestelt: midtsgaders de rekeningen die op deselve platen seer sloridgh aengewesen hebben geweest, zijn nu alle op haer bequame ordre gebracht, followed by Vervolgh van de heel-konste, verhandelende wonden, gehardtheydt, oorsponck van bus-poeder, ende geschut, kout-vyer, ontleden, ende gebroke beenderen. Met alderhande historien verlicht.
18th-century sprinkled half calf, sewn on 5 supports laced into the boards, sprinkled paper sides, black morocco spine label. [8], 200; [8], 207, [1 blank]; [4], 124; [2], 46; [6], 154, [8] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Unrecorded work for pregnant women in a beautifully embroidered silk binding

[BINDING - EMBROIDERED]. Esercizio da premettersi dalle donne in stato di gravidanza per conseguire da dio per l'intercessione del glorioso San Torello protettore insigne l'essenzione da tutti i pericoli e felicità nel prossimo parto.
Florence, Stamperià Arcivescovile alla Croce Rossa, 1822. 8vo. Beautifully embroidered contemporary pink silk over paperboards, with flowers and a border along the edges of both sides, and the initials "CM" in centre of front cover, preserved in a modern marbled slipcase. 39 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Very successful medical Lexicon with translations of technical terms in Dutch, German, French and English

BLANCARDUS, Stephanus. Lexicon novum medicum Graeco-Latinum, caeteris editioibus longè perfectissimum.Inhoc enim totius artis medicae termini, in anatomia, chirurgia, pharmacia, chumia, re botanica, &c. ...
Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn & Jordaan Luchtmans, 1701. 8vo. With the engraved portrait of the author, 4 engraved full-page tables of medical symbols, title-page printed in red and black, some woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Vellum over boards, title written in ink on spine, sprinkled edges. [16], 662, [194] pp. Full description
€ 400
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Bathing for your health: on the medicinal value of the sulphur springs in Aachen & Burtscheid

BLONDEL, François. Thermarum Aquisgranensium, et Porcetanarum elucidatio, & thaumaturgia. Sive admirabilis earumdem natura, & admirabiliores sanationes; qua producunt in usibus balneationis, potationis.
Aachen, Johann Heinrich Clemens, 1688. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece with letterpress imprint and built-up border, Aachen coat of arms pasted on back of frontispiece, engraved coats of arms of 4 dedicatees on back of title-page, full-page engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved plan of Aachen (22.5 x 27 cm), folding engraved view of Burtscheid (11.5 x 24 cm) and 16 smaller engravings in text, depicting scenes and buildings relating to the springs. Contemporary flower-decorated paper over boards, red sprinkled edges. [32], 160, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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Third edition of commentaries on one of the key works by the central figure of European medicine

BOERHAAVE, Herman. Praxis medica, sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendoid & curandis morbis. Pars 1-5. Editio tertia, aucta, & accuratissima.London [= Amsterdam?], sumtibus societatis, 1738. 5 volumes bound as 3. Each title-page with a woodcut vignette and a border built up from typographic ornaments. With an engraved oval portrait of Boerhaave as added as frontispiece, pasted to the first fly-leaf.
With: (2) Herman BOERHAAVE. Historia plantarum. quae in Horto Academico Lugduni Batavorum crescent cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus desumptis ex ore ... Hermanni Boerhaave ... Collectis atque in lucem editis ab ***. Pars 1-2. Editio novissima, aucta ...12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 648, [12]; [2], 400, [6]; [2], 458, [2]; [2], 326, [6]; [2], 382, [10] pp; [4], 408, [2], 409-696, [30] pp. Full description
€ 1,100
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German manuscript book of secrets, including an aria with a Moorish merchant selling medicinal tobacco

[MANUSCRIPT - BOOK OF SECRETS - GERMAN]. [Medicinal recipes and incantations].
[Germany?], [ca. 1700?]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). Manuscript in German with occasional Latin phrases, written on laid paper in brown and black ink in at least two German gothic cursive hands (the Latin phrases in Latin hands), a "tetragrammaton" diagram (rectangular with a St Andrews cross rather than star-shaped) with the name of (the archangel) Uriel and a "sator rotas" square. Lacking quire A and bifolium B1.8 (10 ll.?). Brown vellum(?) wrapper, sewn without supports at 3 stations. [4], 17-28, 31-78, [8] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Five rare works by the Italian orthopaedist Lorenzo Bruni (1804-1848) bound together

BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'Achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1845.
With:
(2) IDEM. Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano...
Naples, [Filiatre Sebezio?], 1845. With 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs.
(3) IDEM. Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1844.
(4) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.
Naples, Ministero di Stato degli affari interni, [1841]. With 4 folding lithographed plates.
(5) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, [1842]. With 3 lithographed plates, including 1 folding.
5 works in 1 vol. Super Royal (except ad 1 Demy) 8vo, mostly in 4s. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, marbled sides, gold- and black-tooled spine with title in 2nd of 5 fields. 24; [38]; 14, [2 blank]; [4], 24; [2], 43, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Two copies of the statutes of the medical college of Brussels, bound with a dissertation containing chemical experiments and a lecture read by the praeses and author's brother

[BRUSSELS]. Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel
Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.
With:
(2) [BRUSSELS]. [Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel].
Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.
(3) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried. Programma quo Christ. Ehrenfr. Weigel... fratris dilectissimi Caroli Henrici Bernhardi Weigel... dissertationem inauguralem... publice defendam indicit praemittens historiae baryllorium rudimenta.
Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. With a folding letterpress dedication page..
(4) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried and Karl Heinrich Bernhard WEIGEL. Dissertatio inauguralis sistens experimenta chemica et instrumenta chirurgica emendata.
Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. With a folding engraved plate showing surgical instruments. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). 19th century boards. [1], [1 blank], [6], 76, [4]; 76, [4]; 28; [1], [1 blank], [4], 50 pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Famous Dutch anatomist on the conflicting demands of family life, academic career and scientific pursuits

[AUTOGRAPH]. CAMPER, Petrus. [Autograph letter, signed, to Reinier Arrenberg].
Groningen, 2 February 1773. 4to. Brown ink on laid paper, addressed on the outside and with an armorial red wax seal.
With: (2) [PORTRAIT]. [PUJOS, André]. P. Camper, ...
[Paris, André Pujos, 1786]. 4to. Mezzotint portrait on laid paper. [1], [1 blank, except for the address]; [1] ll. Full description
€ 4,750
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Beautiful 19th-century prize binding commissioned by the drawing academy in Middelburg, containing Petrus Camper's final, posthumously published work on cephalometry

CAMPER, Petrus. Verhandeling van Petrus Camper, over het natuurlijk verschil der wezenstrekken in menschen van onderscheiden landaart en ouderdom; over het schoon in antyke beelden en gesneedene steenen. Gevolgd door een voorstel van eene nieuwe manier om hoofden van allerleye menschen met zekerheid te tekenen.
Utrecht, B. Wild and J. Altheer, 1791. Large 4to (ca. 26 x 20 cm). With 10 engraved plates: 5 folding double-page plates, 4 full-page plates, numbered I-IX and all dated ca. 1768-1786 in the plates, depicting heads and skulls of humans and apes engraved by Reinier Vinkeles after Petrus Camper, and 1 unnumbered plate depicting a geometric figure. 19th-century mottled calf, with a circular green morocco inlay lettered in gold, within a gold-tooled laurel wreath as a centre piece on both boards. "VIII" [= X], 108, [1]. [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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