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Item #003756 L'optique divisée en trois livres ou l'on démontre d'une d'une maniere aisée tout...

ANGO, Pierre.

L'optique divisée en trois livres ou l'on démontre d'une d'une maniere aisée tout ce qui regarde 1, la Propagation & les proprietez de la Lumiere. 2, La vision. 3, La figure & la disposition des verres qui servent à la perfectionner.

Paris: Etienne Michallet, 1682. 12mo (153 x 90 mm). [8], 367 (i.e. 363) [1] pp. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams in text, errata on final leaf verso. Lacking the woodcut plate. Contemporary speckled sheepskin, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated in compartments, red-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (spine ends chipped, patch..... More

Price: 900 €

Item #003752 An Account of the Foxglove, and some of its Medical Uses, with Practical Remarks on...

WITHERING, William.

An Account of the Foxglove, and some of its Medical Uses, with Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases.

Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1785. 8vo (207 x 133 mm). [2], xx, [2], 207 [1] pp. Large folding hand-colored engraved plate by James Sowerby (2nd state with the artist's name and with lower leaves pointing to the left), unnumbered leaf with plate-explanation bound after p. xx;..... More

Price: 5,900 €

Item #003750 Feld und Stattbuch bewerter Wundtartznei. New widerumb ersehen zusampt dem...

GERSDORFF, Hans von [RYFF, Walter, editor].

Feld und Stattbuch bewerter Wundtartznei. New widerumb ersehen zusampt dem Antidotari, Fürsorg und Vorrath der Chirurgei.

Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff the elder, 1556. 4to (190 x 145 mm). [8], 84 leaves. Title with large woodcut illustration, woodcut text illustrations (several full-page). Signatures: *⁴ A-X⁴. 20th century half vellum, boards covered with reused 16th century paper sheet of religious text. Somewhat browned internally, a few faint..... More

Price: 3,600 €

Item #003746 Observationes quaedam medico-practicae et physiologicae; inter quas aliquanto fusius...

RIDLEY. Humphrey.

Observationes quaedam medico-practicae et physiologicae; inter quas aliquanto fusius agitur de asthmate et hydrophobia. Quarum etiam 10 ultimas subjiciuntur administrationes totidem corporum morbis quorum tituli observationibus iis praefiguntur affectorum anatomicae, cum particulari, et non ante observata. De cordis embryone vasorum structura, et sanguinis juxta eam circuitu dissertatione.

Leiden: Gysbertum Langerak & Theodorum Lucht, 1738. 8vo (215 x 140 mm). [6], 224, [12] pp., folding engraved plate, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials. Original card boards, xylographic paper over spine, hand-lettered paper label, original endpapers, all pages uncut (minor dust soiling of covers, rubbing to extremities)..... More

Price: 900 €

Item #003742 Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not. Florence NIGHTINGALE

NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not.

London: Harrison, 1860. [1860]. 8vo (218 x 140 mm). [1-5] 6-79 [1] pp. Original dark-brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on front cover, blind-ruling to covers, endpapers with publisher's adverts (spine mostly gone, cloth rubbed and spotted, some minor wear to corners). Text with minor even browning, slight dust-soiling mostly..... More

Price: 5,000 €

Item #003741 Archidoxorum, seu de secretis naturae mysteriis, libri decem. Quibus nunc...

PARACELSUS, Theophrastus (Bombast von Hohenheim).

Archidoxorum, seu de secretis naturae mysteriis, libri decem. Quibus nunc accesserunt libri duo, unus de mercuriis metallorum, alter de quinta essentia.

Basel: Peter Perna, 1582. 8vo (168 x 105 mm). [24], 415 [1] pp. Signatures: [alpha]⁸ [beta]⁴ a-z⁸ A-C⁸. Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, spine and lower edge hand-lettered in ink, straps gone (vellum browned and soiled). Text with uneven browning (some gatherings stronger) and minor spotting in places, small..... More

Price: 5,500 €

Item #003736 De stella nova in pede serpentarii / De stella tertii honoris in cygno, quae us que...

KEPLER, Johannes.

De stella nova in pede serpentarii / De stella tertii honoris in cygno, quae us que ad annum M.DC. fuit incognita / Jesu Christi servatoris nostri vero anno natalitio.

Prague / Frankfurt am Main: Typis Paulus Sessius / Wolfgang Richter, 1606. De stella nova in pede serpentarii. Prague: Typis Paulus Sessius, 1606. In two parts. II. De stella tertii honoris in cygno, quae us que ad annum M.DC. fuit incognita. Prague: Paulus Sessius, 1606. III. Jesu Christi servatoris nostri..... More

Price: 60,000 €

Item #003735 The English Euclide. EUCLID, Charles SCARBURGH, Sir

EUCLID; SCARBURGH, Charles, Sir.

The English Euclide.

Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. Folio (341 x 223 mm). [12], 282 pp., including half-title, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater, final blank leaf Qq4, numerous woodcut and typographic text diagrams throughout. Signatures: pi² a-b² A-G² H-Z⁴ Aa-Qq⁴. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, spine with 6 raised bands..... More

Price: 3,800 €

Item #003734 Revue photographique des hôpitaux de Paris / Revue médico-photographique des...

MONTMEJA, Pierre Michel Arthur de; RENGADE, P. Jules; BOURNEVILLE, Désiré Magloire.

Revue photographique des hôpitaux de Paris / Revue médico-photographique des hôpitaux de Paris (année 1873 ff).

Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1870. 1870-1875. 6 volumes. 4to (237 x 170 mm). Each volume with half-title, title, woodcut text illustration and diagrams, and a total of 214 (of 214) albumen prints of photographs, each meauring ca. 12 x 9 cm and mounted on a thick sheet of printed paper. Seven..... More

Price: 12,000 €

Item #003732 De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini...

GALVANI, Luigi.

De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini dissertatione et notis. Accesserunt epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes.

Modena: Societatem Typographicam, 1792. 4to (278 x 210 mm). xxvi, 80 pp. and 3 folding engraved plates (plate III in first state with the letter 'E' in fig. 22 uncorrected); woodcut headpieces; bound without intermediate blank leaf C6 as usual. Contemporary Italian cardboard, pasted over with orange metallic paper, red-sprinkled..... More

Price: 9,500 €

Item #003730 Monographie des dermatoses ou precis theorique et pratique des maladies de la peau....

ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc, baron.

Monographie des dermatoses ou precis theorique et pratique des maladies de la peau. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de planches coloriées représentant environ trente espèces ou variétés de maladies.

Paris: Germer Baillère, 1835. 4to (295 x 234 mm). xii, vi-lii, 814 [i.e. 806] pp., including half-title, lithographed plate of Hopital St. Louis, folding lithographed plate of family tree of skin diseases and 10 chromolithographed plates by Valvile et Tresca, protected by tissue paper. Pp. 377-8, 672-9 skipped, 393-4 twice..... More

Price: 1,200 €

Item #003725 Trois traitez de la philosophie naturelle non encore imprimez : scavoir Le secret...

ARNAULD, Pierre.

Trois traitez de la philosophie naturelle non encore imprimez : scavoir Le secret livre du tres-ancien philosophe Artephius, traitant de l'art occulte et transmutation metallique, Latin Francois : plus Les figures hierogliphiques de Nicolas Flamel ainsi qu'il les a mises en la quatriesme arche qu'il a bastie au Cimitiere des Innocens á Paris, entrant par la grande porte de la rué S. Denys, & prenant la main droite, avec l'explication d'icelles par iceluy Flamel ; ensemble, Le vray livre du docte Synesius Abbé grec, tiré de la bibliotheque de l'empereur sur le mesme subiect.

Paris: Guillaume Marette, 1612. 4to (208 x 150 mm). 103 [1] pp. With 8 allegorical woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials, a folding woodcut plate representing the "hieroglyphics" of Flamel. Signatures: A-N⁴. 19th century straight-grained plum morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards and board edges tooled in gilt..... More

Price: 3,500 €

Item #003724 Anatomia universale [. . .] rappresentata con tavole in rame ridotte a minori forme...

MASCAGNI, Paolo.

Anatomia universale [. . .] rappresentata con tavole in rame ridotte a minori forme di quelle della grande. .

Florence: V. Batelli e figli, 1833. Large folio (457 x 298 mm). 292, [4] pp. including title page and index at end, 150 engraved plates (14 folding), comprising 75 partly printed in color and hand-finished in color, and 75 uncolored duplicates in outline. The colored plates with small round blind-stamp..... More

Price: 15,000 €

Item #003723 Anatomische Tafeln zur Beförderung der Kenntniss des menschlichen Körpers. Two...

LODER, Justus Christian.

Anatomische Tafeln zur Beförderung der Kenntniss des menschlichen Körpers. Two text- and two plate volumes.

Weimar: Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1794. (1794)-1803. Large folio (text vols. 417 x 255 mm; plate vols. 450 x 280 mm). Plates uncut. A total of 193 engraved plates bound in two volumes, of which 32 partly hand-colored. Text vol. I: [62], 51 [1]; [2], 32; 100; [2], 74, 21-42 pp...... More

Price: 4,800 €

Item #003722 Theatrum Anatomicum Novis figuris aeneis illustratum et in lucem emissum opera et...

BAUHIN, Gaspard [BAUHINIUS, Caspar].

Theatrum Anatomicum Novis figuris aeneis illustratum et in lucem emissum opera et sumptibus Theodori de Bry p. m. relicta viduae et filiorum Ioannis Theodori & Ioannis Israelis de Bry / Appendix ad Theatrum Anatomicum . . . sive explicatio characterum omnium, qui figuris totius operis addita fuere. .

Frankfurt am Main: Mathias Becker for Th. de Bry, 1605. 8vo (c. 185 x 120 mm, the second vol. slightly smaller). Vol. I: [16], 1070, 1069-1099, 1110-1314 (i.e. 1306) pp.; engraved title-page with author's portrait on verso, engraved armorial device on verso of following leaf, 129 full-page text illustrations, final..... More

Price: 8,500 €

Item #003721 Recueil de plusieurs traitez de mathematique de l'Academie Royale des Sciences....

ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES (BLONDEL, Nicolas-Francois; PICARD, Jean; MARIOTTE, Edme; FRENICLE DE BESSY, Bernard).

Recueil de plusieurs traitez de mathematique de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy pour l'Imprimerie Royale, 1676. 1676 [i.e., 1677]. 6 parts in one volume. Large folio (557 x 402 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Goyton after Sebastien le Clerc, general title with engraved vignette incorporating the royal arms of Louis XIV, half-title to each tract, numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces..... More

Price: 16,500 €

Item #003720 Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive...

EULER, Leonhard.

Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio problematis isoperometrici latissimo sensu accepti.

Lausanne & Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1744. 4to (239 x 186 mm). [4], 322, [2] pp., including initial blank and final leaf of binder's instructions, title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut head-piece and initial, 5 folding engraved plates bound at end. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with..... More

Price: 4,500 €

Item #003719 Ars generalis ultima [incipit]. Deus cum summa perfectione. Edited by Joannes...

LULL, Ramon [LULLUS, Raymundus].

Ars generalis ultima [incipit]. Deus cum summa perfectione. Edited by Joannes Cordubensis.

Venice: Filippo di Pietro, for Johannes Cordubensis, 1480. 13 Nov. 1480. 4to (203 x 150 mm). 216 (of 224) unnumbered leaves. 35 lines, Gothic letter, 2- to 8-line initial spaces. Bound without first blank leaf a1 and final blank leaf y4 as well as the 6 leaves of final gathering..... More

Price: 45,000 €

Item #003717 Natur-Spiegel : Worin der Mensch vom ersten Augenblick seiner Werdung bis zu seinem...

KRAPF, Nikolaus Ambrosius.

Natur-Spiegel : Worin der Mensch vom ersten Augenblick seiner Werdung bis zu seinem Ausschluss aus Mutterleib in einer dreyfachen Abbildung zu sehen, und auch aus kurzbeygehaengter Beschreibung zu wissen ist: 1. Wie der Mensch Anfangs seinem Wachsthum in Mutterleib bekomme, und nehmen?, 2. Wie der anfangende Mensch nach 20 Wochen, oder um jene Zeit, wenn er fähig ist beseelt zu werden? und 3. Wie selbiger bey seinem Ausschluss aus Mutterleib beschaffen seye? : deme einige anatomische Erklaerungen, nebst vielen, sonders denen Neo-Confessaris dienlichen Anmerkungen, wie auch die ausführliche Ursachen wegen Frucht- oder Unfruchtbarkeit beiden Geschlechts vorangefüget werden.

Basel: Johann Rudolf Im-Hof, 1761. Folio (327 x 207 mm). [8], 16 pp., two double-page engraved plates bound at the end, title with woodcut vignette. Contemporary black-sprinkled paper-covered boards, spine with hand-lettered paper label, original endpapers (extremities rubbed, small wormtrack to front board). Internally generally crisp and clean with minor..... More

Price: 1,800 €

Item #003714 Recueil d'experiences et observations sur le combat, qui procede du mélange des...

GREW, Nehemiah; BOYLE, Robert; LEEUWENHOEK, Anton van; [LE VASSEUR, Louis, editor].

Recueil d'experiences et observations sur le combat, qui procede du mélange des corps. Sur les saveurs, sur les odeurs, sur le sang, sur le lait, &c. Tres-curieux & utile aux medecins & à ceux qui s'appliquent à la recherche de la nature, des qualitez & des proprietez de toutes sortes de corps.

Paris: chez Estienne Michallet, 1679. 12mo (158 x 86 mm). Three parts in one volume. [16], 262, [2] pp., including privilege leaf at the end, bound without the engraved frontispiece and the engraved plate. Signatures: ã⁶, e², A-Y⁶. Contemporary sheepskin, spine with gilt decoration, binding very worn (spine leather in..... More

Price: 600 €

Item #003710 De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Andreas VESALIUS

VESALIUS, Andreas.

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1555. August 1555. Large folio (430 x 287 mm). [12], 824, [48] pp. Woodcut title-page, author's portrait on f. a6v, numerous woodcut illustrations (of which 17 full-page), ornamental initials (ranging in size from 7 to 12 lines), 2 folding tables with woodcut diagrams, errata on f. Bb1r..... More

Price: 85,000 €

Item #003709 De re anatomica libri XV. Realdo COLOMBO

COLOMBO, Realdo.

De re anatomica libri XV.

Venice: N. Bevilacqua, 1559. Folio (314 x 220 mm). [8], 169 (i.e., 269), [2] pp. Internally generally crisp and clean, title working loose, somewhat browned and dust soiled and with minor repairs to blank margin; occasional minor spotting and very light dampstaining to outer blank margins, text markings and ink..... More

Price: 24,000 €

Item #003707 The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Uterus and its Appendages, with Illustrations of the...

HOOPER, Robert.

The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Uterus and its Appendages, with Illustrations of the Most Frequent and Important Organic Diseases To Which Those Viscera are Subject.

London: printed for the author, sold by Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1832. 4to (335 x 274 mm). [8], 67 [1] pp. 22 fine hand-coloured lithographed, stipple-engraved or aquatint plates after Howship and Kirkland, a few printed in red or sepia, protected by tissue guards. Original boards, large printed..... More

Price: 8,500 €

Item #003704 The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings. Charles BELL

BELL, Charles.

The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings.

London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802. 4to (276 x 221 mm). vii [1], 87 [1] pp., 12 stipple-engraved plates (11 printed in colours and finished by hand) by T. Medland, John Stewart, W. Archibald and others after Bell, protected by tissue paper. Later three-quarter maroon calf and cloth, spine..... More

Price: 8,500 €

Item #003703 Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der...

ARRHENIUS, Svante.

Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche / Ueber die Wärmeabsorption durch Kohlensäure und ihren Einfluss auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche.

Stockholm: Kungl. Boktryckeriet P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1896. Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche. Offprint: Bihang Till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar, Bd. XXII/I, 1. Stockholm: Kungl. Boktryckeriet P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1896. 8vo (215 x 140 mm). 102 pp. Original wrappers with publisher's..... More

Price: 5,500 €

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