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Item #4712 Observationum ac Paradoxorum chymiatricorum Libri Duo: Quorum Unus medicamentorum...

Observationum ac Paradoxorum chymiatricorum Libri Duo: Quorum Unus medicamentorum Chymicorum praeparatione, Alter eorundem usum succincte perspicuèque explicat.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1631.

Price: $5,500.00

A very nice copy in contemporary limp vellum. Light marginal dampstain to outer margin of first gathering, marginal worm-trail in blank lower margin of gatherings Q and R discreetly repaired. Occasional light toning, a few stray marks. Leaf B1 canceled as always. With a fine engraved frontispiece by Gerard Muntinck...

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Item #4918 English recipe book, manuscript on paper. “F. Norris her Book. 1781.”. F. CULINARY...

English recipe book, manuscript on paper. “F. Norris her Book. 1781.”

England: Lincolnshire: ca. 1781.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, double blind fillet around boards, heavily stained, head of spine worn, slightly warped, outer margins of first five leaves browned, light spotting and thumbing throughout.A manuscript of 133 numbered recipes for the pantry, the barrel, and the sweet tooth, written in a few different hands. The...

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Item #4713 A Nievve Herball, or, Historie of Plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse...

A Nievve Herball, or, Historie of Plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers and sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke / first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, Physitian to the Emperour: And nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte esquyer.

Antwerp: [Printed by Henry Loë and sold] at London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the Signe of the Swanne, 1578.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy in eighteenth-century calf, very nicely re-backed; boards ruled in gold, minor wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Illustrated with more than 850 quarter-paged woodcuts of plants in the text. The title is framed by an elaborate woodcut border by Arnold Nicolai after Pierre van der Borcht, depicting...

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Item #4320 De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus. Ulrich von Hutten

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

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Item #4171 Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra...

Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam nova & rariora ex recentiorum scriptis addidit. Editio Novissima. Iconibus illustrata.

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.

Price: $9,500.00

The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...

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Item #4513 Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des...

Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des Herzens und denen Spannadern des Angesichts aus den Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

Berlin: Bey Ambros. Haude und Johann Carl Spener, 1755.

Price: $4,900.00

With 3 folding plates engraved by Nikolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Plate 1 illustrates the veins on the right side of the face, head, and neck, accompanied by over 310 annotations (inscribed: '[...] sculp. Mem: de l'Acad Tom vii'); Plates 2 and 3 show both sides...

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Item #4488 A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines...

A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which have beene long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set forth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people, that are not of abilitie to go the Physicions. By G. W. And now seventhly augmented and inlarged by A. T. Practitioner in Physicke and Chirurgerie.

London: Printed by Richard Badger, for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1630.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in -rather worn- contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, the corners rounded. Text in good condition, with variable browning and a little chipping to the edges of the title and final leaf; small paper flaw at corner of leaf M3, affecting a catchword. Provenance: 18th-century bookplate of George Edwards (1694-1773)...

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Item #4642 Margarita medicin(a)e. ein meisterlichs usserlesens Biechlin der Artzeny für...

Margarita medicin(a)e. ein meisterlichs usserlesens Biechlin der Artzeny für mancherley kranckheit vnd siechtagen der menschen. Gemacht durch Johannem Tollat von Vochenberg in der weitberümpte Universitet zu Wien bey dem aller erfarnisten man d(er) Artzeny doctor Schrick.

Strasbourg: [Matthias Hupfuff], 1508.

Price: $14,000.00

Printer information from Schmidt (see references.) A very good copy in modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled, a few contemporary corrections to page numbering, tiny chip to blank corner of title, occ. light marginal staining. With a woodcut title illustration (repeated on the final leaf) showing a doctor treating his bed-ridden...

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Item #4868 The most excelent worckes of chirurgery, made and set forth by maister Iohn Vigon,...

The most excelent worckes of chirurgery, made and set forth by maister Iohn Vigon, head chirurgien of oure tyme in Italy, traunslated into Englishe. Wherunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and vnknowen symples, belongynge vnto the arte.

London: Imprynted by Edwarde Whytchurch, wyth the Kynges moste graciouse priuelege for seuen yeres. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1550.

Price: $18,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-ruled and tooled English calfskin over wooden boards, lacking the clasps but with the original catches present. The binding has been rebacked with sheepskin, preserving the original calfskin spine, with some wear and flaking to the sheep at the hinges. A small section of the leather on...

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