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BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad. De medicinae origine et progressu dissertationes. In quibus medicinorum sectae, institutiones, decreta, hypotheses, praeceptiones, &c. Ab initio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora traduntur.
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Paddenburg and Willem Kroon, 1723. 4to. With the title-page printed in red and black with a small woodcut ornamental vignette, and two woodcut illustrations in the text. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, a large woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and woodcut ornamental tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper sides, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold (now faded), red edges. [1], [1 blank], [14], 679, [1] pp. Full description

BECCARIA, Giambatista. Elettricismo artificiale ...
(Colophon: Turin, royal printing office [of the King of Sardinia], 1 June 1772). With 11 engraved folding plates.
With: (2) [BECCARIA, Giambatista]. Experimenta, atque observations, quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur, atque explicatur.
(Colophon: Turin, royal printing office [of the King of Sardinia]), [1769]. With letterpress folding table and 1 engraved folding plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary mottled half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, 439, [1]; [4], 66 pp. Full description

BERGMAN, Torbern Olof. Manuel du minéralogiste; ou sciagraphie du règne minéral, distribuée d'après l'analyse chimique; ... Mise aujour par M. Ferber ... et traduite et augmentée de notes par M. Mongez le Jeune. Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, par J.C. Delamétherie.
Paris, Cuchet, 1792. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates (1 folding). Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. CXX, 359, [1 blank]; [4], 443, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BERZELIUS, Jöhns Jacob. Nouveau système de minéralogie.
Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1819. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. [4], VI, 314, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. Pharmacia Galenica & Chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde Apotheker en Alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. ... en verrijckt met een kort Examen der Chirurgie, benevens een tractaet van de kennisse der Droogen. Den vierden druck.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece of the interior of an apothecarys shop: Het Nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der Apothekers en distilleerkonst. TAmsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn den [...in ink: tienden] druck 16[.. in ink: 1662]; woodcut printers device on title; 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 343, 347 and 391); woodcut initials and endpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards with title in ink on spine. [16], 466, [14], 54 pp. Full description

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Fundamenta medica sive de alcali et acidi effectibus per modum fermentionis & effervescentiæ. Acedit ... Pharmocopaea ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Blankaart, 1688.
With:
(2) BLANKAART, Steven. Praxeos medicæ idea nova.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1685.
(3) VIGANI, Giovanni Francesco. Medulla chymiæ, variis experimentis aucta, multisq; figuris illustrata. ...
"London", [= northern Germany?], "Henry Faithorne & John Kersey" [printer and publisher unknown], 1685.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a divisional title for the Pharmacopaea, woodcut tailpieces, 1 woodcut decorated initial and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Ad 2 with Ten Hoorn's woodcut JCTH cypher monogram on the title-page, the engraved arms of the dedicatee Abraham Johannes Kuffler, 6 engraved illustration plates showing 10 numbered figures, 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with 3 numbered engraved folding plates, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few fleurons. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, each board with a centrepiece and in each corner a fleur-de-lis, the whole in a frame of double fillets, red sprinkled edges. [8], 228, [11], [1 blank]; [16], 170, [6]; [10], 70 pp. Full description

BROCHANT DE VILLIERS, André-Jean-François-Marie. Die Krystallisation in geometrischer und physikalicher Hinsicht.
Heidelberg, Mohr and Winter, 1820. 8vo. With 16 lithographed plates. Contemporary paste-paper boards. XX, 200, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[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

CORDUS, Valerius. De halosantho seu spermate ceti vulgo dicto, liber nunc primum in lucem abditus.
Zürich, [Jacob Gessner], 1566. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a woodcut initial. Modern paper boards, early marbled edges. [3], 37 ll. Full description

DARCET, Jean, Bertrand PELLETIER & Claude-Hugues LELIEVRE. Extrait du rapport sur la fabrication de la soude.
[Paris, l'Imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, after 1794]. 8vo. Contemporary boards with gold on black spine label. 12 pp. Full description