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Medicine & Pharmacy / Medicine & Pharmacy after 1700

A collection of articles on Spanish medical history

COMENGE Y FERRER, Luís. Curiosidades médicas precedidas de un discurso sobre el florecimiento de la medicina Española en el siglo XVI y su posterior decadencia.
Madrid, Manuel Ginés Hernández, 1886. 8vo. With 3 lithographed plates (2 folding), reproducing manuscript letters. Modern dark purple half sheepskin, with the original printed front wrapper bound in. 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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A scarce Arabic bestiary

DAMIRI, Muhammad ibn Musa al-. Kitab Hayat al-Hayawan [= Book of the life of animals].
Meknes, Morocco, 1267 AH [= 1851 CE]. 4to (19 x 23 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper, brown maghribi script in two hands with important words and phrases in red and blue. With an illuminated head-piece at the start of the text in red, blue, green, and gold. Contemporary gold-tooled red leather with a fore-edge flap. 62 ll. Full description
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Killing the pain of dental cavities

DELACOUR, chirurgien-dentiste. Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades.
Metz, the author (back of the title-page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on spine. 12 pp. Full description
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How to make artificial teeth and dentures that are more beautiful, lasting and perfect

DIDIER, Joseph-Maximilien. Mémoire sur de nouvelles dents et de nouveaux dentiers en pate minéro-adamantine, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, ou Nouveau système de prothèse dentaire dont la beauté, la propreté, la durée, l'utilité et la perfection de l'ajustement, obvient à tous les inconvénients des dents et des dentiers actuellement en usage, suivi de quelques conseils sur la conservation des dents chez l'adulte et chez l'enfant.
[Paris, chez l'auteur, 1846]. Small 8vo. Recent dark blue-grey cloth over boards. 16 pp. Full description
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Rare Dutch translations of a collection of texts on the notorious "powder of sympathy"

DIGBY, Kenelmus (or DYGBY), Nicolas PAPINUS & Athanasius KIRCHER. Theatrum Sympateticum, ofte wonder toneel der natuirs verborgentheden. Behelsende een uitstekende oratie, over het gebruik des poeders de sympathie, daar in de waarheid zijner werkinge werd ontdekt. ...
Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, Jan ten Hoorn, Pieter Ruirds, 1709. 2 parts in one volume. Small 8vo. With a fine engraved frontispiece by J. Luyken. Contemporary vellum, title in ink in manuscript on spine. [8], 320; 196, [20] pp. Full description
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By one of the most important pioneers of medical biography

ELOY, N.F.J. Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne. Ou mémoires disposés en ordre alphabétique pour server à lhistoire de cette science, et à celle des medecins, anatomistes, botanistes, chirurgiens, et chymistes de toutes nations.
Mons, H. Hoyois, 1778. 4 volumes. Large 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece; woodcut printers devices, engraved and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges, marbled endpapers [6], VIII, XII, 745, [2]; [4], 650; [4], 648; [4]; 626, [2] pp. Full description
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Exceptionally rare Dutch edition of Eustachius' complete collection of anatomical plates

EUSTACHIUS, Bartolomaeus and Andreas BONN (editor). De ontleedkundige plaaten van B. Eustachius.
Amsterdam, Lodewijk van Es, [1798]. Folio (ca. 37 x 24.5 cm). With 47 engraved plates on 41 leaves. Early 19th-century quarter vellum, brown marbled paper sides, with the author in manuscript at the head of the spine. [2], [51] ll. and 47 engraved plates on 41 leaves. Full description
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