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1000 medical case studies by a Paracelsian physician, with many recipes for medicines

RULAND, Martin. Curationum empyricarum & historicarum, in certis locis & notis personis optimè expertarum, & ritè probatum, centuriae decem. Quibus adiuncta de novo eiusdem authoris medicina practica; cum indice rerum omnium uberrimo.
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Medicina practica recens et nova, continens omnes totius humani corporis morbos, per alphabeticum ordinem collectos: ...
Appendix de dosibus, seu justa quantitate, ac proportione medicamentorum compositorum omnium quae hodie officini parata extant: ...
Rouen, Johannis Berthelin, 1650. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page and 2 divisional title-pages, each with the same woodcut device. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 794, [13], [1 blank]; 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Treatise on a special medicament against various kinds of poisons,
by the personal physician of Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau

SALA, Angelo. Ternarius Bezoarticorum ou trois souverains medicaments Bezoardiques, contre tous venins et empoisonnements tant externes que internes: corruption de sang, & autres humeurs.
Leiden, Govert Basson, 1616. 4to. With engraved allegorical title-page in architectural setting with Andromachus and King Mithridates flanking the title. Modern vellum. [28], 91, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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With 42 emblems revolving around the human body and body parts

SCARLATINI, Ottavio. Homo et eius partes figuratus & symbolicus, anatomicus, rationalis, moralis, mysticus, politicus, & legalis, collectus et explicatus cum figuris.
Augsburg & Dillingen, Johann Caspar Bencard, 1695. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37 x 23 cm). With a finely engraved emblematic frontispiece by the Augsburg engraver Leonhard Heckenauer (1655-1704), 2 title-pages with the same large engraved brooding chicken emblem and 42 engraved emblems in decorative cartouches in the text (plate size mostly 14 x 13 cm, but that on p. 232 of vol. 1 3.5 x 8.5 cm) perhaps also by Heckenauer. Contemporary vellum. [52], 342, [44]; [28], 249, [29] pp. including the frontispiece. Full description
€ 7,500
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A fierce diatribe against the evil practices of the ignorant, obscure and lazy pharmacists,
stirring a host of counter attacks in 1696 (esp. in The Hague)

SCHOON, Theodorus. Defensio medica ofte den doctor van de nieuwe mode Schoon, naakt vertoont, nevens syne kueren, tot des selfs verdedigingh, tegens de frivole snapperyen der plamoters: wegen syn E. weergalooze tractaat, geintituleert, Den apotheker in t hembd. Door een beminnaar der waarheyt en rechtzinnige geneeskunde.
The Hague, Gillis van Limburg, 1696.
With: (2) SCHOON, Theodorus. De apotheker in t hembd, of de wederspannige knegt tegen syn meester.
The Hague, Engelbregt Boucquet, 1696.8vo. Modern black marbled stiff paper wrappers, red sprinkled edges. 38, [2]; [18], 52, [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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First edition of “the first actual dispensatory”, with 271 numbered medicines

SCRIBONIUS LARGUS ( Jean RUEL ed.). De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...
(Colophon: Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528). Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois's woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats. Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment. [9], [1 blank], 31, [5] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Very rare publication of a dispute between doctors and apothecaries in Brussels

[SOPHIE, Jacques]. Noodighe op-rechtinghe van 't collegie de medecyne, opentlyck bewesen aen d'inwoonders der stadt van Brussel, met 't verhael van alle swarigheden daer-overgeresen, ende weder legginge van d'op-sprake, daer-tegen onglanghs voor ghewendt.
Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels, 1660. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut on the last page. [6], 101, [1] pp. Full description
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Second edition of Steno’s seminal study of muscle tissue and the formation of fossils

STENO, Nicolaus (Niels STENSEN). Elementorum myologiae specimen: seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1669. With many woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the text and 7 engraved folding plates with figures and tables.
With: (2) HOBOKEN, Nicolaas. Anatomia secundinae humanae, quindecim figuris ad vivum propriâ autoris manu delineatis, illustrata. ... Cum annexo S. Specilegio epistolarum, rem potissimum generatoriam referentium.Utrecht, Joannes Ribbius, 1669. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page portrait of Nicolaas Hoboken by C. Hagens facing the frontispiece and 15 figures on 8 engraved folding plates.
8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, blue edges. [1 blank], [1], 221, [11]; [1], [1 blank], 148, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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The chemistry of Hippocrates, in the Islamic tradition known as Boqrat

TACHENIUS, Otto. Hippocrates chimicus, qui novissimi viperini salis antiquissima fundamenta oftendit ...
Hannover, Thomas Heinrich Hauenstein, 1668.
With: (2) TACHENIUS, Otto. Antiquissimae Hippocratiae medicinae clavis manuali experiential in naturae fontibus elaborate, quaper ignem & aquam inaudita method, occulta naturae, & artis, compendiosa operandi ratione manifesta fiunt, dilucidè aperiuntur. Seneca in epistola.
Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrod, 1669.
2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut device on title-page and a woodcut endpiece on last page. Contemporary vellum. [40], 270, [1]; 286, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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