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Second copy located of one of the earliest pharmacopoeias: one of the rarest and most important pharmacological publications

1. [BA RCELONA—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. SOL A NO NA RCISO secundo. Concordi[a]e pharmacopolarum Barcinonensium.(Colophon: Barcelona, Pedro de Monpezat, 22 September, but dedication 23 September and preliminary note 24 September) 1535. Small 2º (13 × 21 cm). With a woodcut border assembled from 7 pieces, about 20 woodcut decorated initials (8 series, 3 with figures of Jesus, death, etc., and the other 5 white on black with floral and other decoration) plus hundreds of repeats, and one size of simple woodcut “Lombardic” initials. Set in 3 sizes of rotunda gothic type. Early 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. € 27 500

Second copy located (third copy recorded) of the second edition of one of the earliest pharmacological recipe books, first published in 1511, also at Barcelona, as Concordie apothecariorum Barchinone. No complete copy of the first edition is known. The first edition became in practice the standard source for pharmacologists in Barcelona and in the Iberian peninsula generally, and probably saw considerable international use. It is generally regarded as the second printed pharmacopoeia, following the Nuovo receptario composto dal famossisimo chollegio degli eximii doctori della arte et medicina della inclita cipta di Firenze (Florence, 1498). Moreover, the Florence pharmacopoeia was compiled primarily by and for doctors, while the Barcelona pharmacopoeia was compiled primarily by and for apothecaries. This gives the Barcelona pharmacopoeia a special technical authority beyond that of the Florence predecessor. A pharmacopoeia is defined as a medicinal recipe book that was officially designated as a standard by a city, another government body or a society of pharmacologists or doctors, so there has been some question whether the 1511 edition meets that requirement. The Barcelona association of apothecaries was established in 1455, but its archives survive only from 1532: they certainly mention the 1511 edition, and it is supposed that it was produced for them as the 1535 and 1587 editions certainly were. The 1535 edition also includes important revisions and additions.With an occasional early manuscript note. Lacking the title-page [pi]1, the Imperial arms [pi]4, the final blank leaf, and most of the text leaf h5 (leaf LXI); with photographs of the title-page and relevant text leaf of another copy inserted. Further with a large water stain in the upper inside corner, mostly in the first 30 and last 15 leaves, and occasional foxing, but still with most leaves in good condition and the whole nearly untrimmed. The parchment is wrinkled and spotted. One of the most important sources for early pharmacology.

J.M. Suñé Arbussá, Les Concòrdies de Barcelona del segle XVI (2007), pp. 185–188 & passim (3 copies, probably including the present); Cat. Bibl. Salvá (1872), 2752; KVK & WorldCat (Salvá/Wellcome copy); Palau 317079; Wellcome I, 5999 (Salvá copy).

Rare pharmacopoeia, with an engraved title-page by Jan Luyken

2. BATE , George and James SHIPTON . Pharmacopoea Batheana. Ofte den apotheek van de heer Georgius Bath ...Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1698. 12º. With an engraved title-page by Jan Luyken. 19th-century marbled wrappers. € 2850

First edition of a translation into Dutch of medical recipes collected by the British physician George Bate (1608–1668), originally published as the Pharmacopoeia Bateana in 1688. Bate had been personal physician to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and had been so highly regarded that his papers were collected and printed 19 years after his death. According to the foreword, the Dutch publisher had given the book to a number of Dutch physicians, including Steven Blankaart, who recommended it be translated. Among Bates’s recipes are a number of peculiar medicines such as “Aqua omnium Florum”, made from cow-dung gathered in the month May, and “Spiritus Sanguinis” made from the putrid blood of a young man distilled in the sand. A list of medical titles printed and sold by the publisher appears on the final two pages.With a 19th-century owner’s inscription on the pastedown and a shelf mark on the front cover. Binding worn, but still a good copy. With a few small tears and larger tears in *5 and K11; ink stain in the outer margin of the last 20 pages.

Klaversma & Hannema 328; Krivatsy 888; STCN (1 incomplete copy); WorldCat (3 copies).

Third edition of the Brussels pharmacopoeia, with a charming frontispiece showing a pharmacy

3. [BRUSSEL S—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. [ JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. Pharmacopoea Bruxellensis senatus authoritate munita. Editio altera.Brussels, Franciscus Foppens (I), 1702. 8º. With a frontispiece by Jacobus Harrewijn (1660–1727), showing the interior of a pharmacy and two engraved tables identifying alchemical symbols and measurements. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 750

Rare third edition of the Brussels pharmacopoeia. Brussels had begun discussing plans to establish a Collegium Medicum ca. 1605, but failed to do so. A 1636 plague gave city magistrates the impetus to compile a pharmacopoeia, however, and they commissioned four leading city physi-cians to compile the present Brussels pharmacopoeia. No apothecaries were officially consulted in the compilation of the Brussels pharmacopoeia, reflecting the growing status of physicians and declining status of apothecaries. Amsterdam had produced the first official pharmacopoeia in the Low Countries in 1636, based in part on Valerius, but the Brussels physicians chose to take the 1638 Paris Codex medicamentarius Parisiensis as their principal model.Binding worn; several pages browned and with a few smudges; frontispiece with a small restored tear in the fore-edge margin; pp. 77–78 with a part of the outer margin torn out and pp. 79–80 with a tear; a good copy.

Anet (3 copies, 2 of which are incomplete); Blake, p. 348; Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 71–72 (6 copies); STCV (2 incomplete copies); Wellcome IV, p. 357.

Rare second edition in Dutch of the Brussels pharmacopoeia

4. [BRUSSEL S—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. [ JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. Brusselsche apotheek, door het gezag van de magistraat bevestigd, en naar de tweede Latynsche druk in het Nederduitsch vertaalt.Amsterdam, Johannes van Seggeren, 1775. 8º. With an engraved title-page showing a pharmacy, the preparation of medicines and a botanical garden, and 2 folding engrav-ings identifying alchemical symbols and measurements. Contemporary wrappers, rebacked. € 750

Rare second edition of the Dutch translation of the Brussels pharmacopoeia. Like the first Dutch edition of 1742, the translation was based on the second Latin edition originally published in 1671. Interestingly, when this edition was published in 1775, the Viennese phar-macopoeia had been the official pharmacopoeia of Brussels since 1747.With the bookplate of the Gouda pharmacist Elize Grendel (1899–1986). Binding somewhat worn and crudely rebacked. Dog-eared and some spots; a good copy.

Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 82–83 (1 copy); STCN (2 copies of which 1 incomplete); WorldCat (3 copies); not in Wellcome; NLM.

Remedies for common internal and external diseases5. [C A PUEEL , Engelbert]. Enchiridion medicum oft medicyn-boeckxken waer in verhandelt worden veel sieckten, die dagelijckx voor-vallen, daer by de remedien om die te genesen ... den sesden druck van nieuws oversien, vermeerdert ende van veele fauten verbetert.Including:– [C A PUEEL , Engelbert]. Eenige remedien die aen-gaen de chirurgie ofte uyt wendige gebreken des lichaems.– [C A PUEEL , Engelbert]. Clarius et majus lumen pharmacopaeorum. Dat is claerder en meerder licht der apothekers...Antwerp, widow of Conradius Ignatius van der Hey, 1750. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8º. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. € 300

Rare revised and enlarged sixth edition of a medical compendium by the Belgian pharma-cist Capueel Engelbert (1642–1733). It contains a collection of medicines and remedies for common diseases and ailments, based on different sources as well as the author’s own expe-rience. Therefore, according to the author, the book contains many new remedies. The first part deals with internal diseases, including fevers, dysentery, yellow fever, fainting, epilepsy, nose bleeds, lyse and worms. Capueel stands in the Galenic tradition of humorism, with bile from the pancreas as the main reason for fevers. The second part treats external diseases, including ailments to the eyes, teeth and skin (such as burns, mange and wounds). The third part is a pharmacopeia, describing different distillates, syrups and the use of salt when treating an illness. Capueel claims to have read all the pharmacopoeias, including the ones from London and Augsburg, and aims with his pharmacopoeia to correct their errors.Binding rubbed along the extremities. Otherwise in very good condition.

BMN I, p. 8; Worldcat (5 copies); cf. Blake, p. 77; Wellcome II, p. 298; not in STCV.

Kenelm Digby’s medical recipes for common ailments and diseases

6. DIGBY, Kenelm. Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities.London, printed for the author and sold by Henry Brome, 1668. 8º. With an engraved author’s portrait by Thomas Cross as frontispiece. Modern half tanned sheepskin. € 1500

First edition of a posthumously published work containing many medical recipes for common ailments by the English diplomat, philosopher and alchemist Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). From a young age Digby started to travel all over Europe collecting medical recipes and chemical “secrets”, and befriending Galileo, the painter Anthony van Dyck and later Thomas Hobbes and Descartes. This work contains numerous recipes for waters, balsams, oils, pills and powders against many common diseases and ailments, like fever, coughing, toothache, red eyes, cancer, the plague etc., also including some recipes for perfumes. Included at the end is a table listing all the ailments and medicines. Digby is best known for his treatise on the “powder of sympathy”, “a potion which allowed healing of the wound by treating the weapon which caused it” (MacDonald).With library stamps. Browned throughout but especially in the margins, some occasional foxing and water stains, and margins somewhat frayed, otherwise in good condition.

ESTC R214067; Krivatsy 3227; Wellcome II, pp. 468–469; cf. P.S. MacDonald, Kenelm Digby’s two treatises (2013), pp. 6, 10.

Pharmacopoeia of Ferrara, Italy7. [FER R A R A—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. C A MPA NA, Antonio. Farmacopea Ferrarese ... Edizione decima.Padua, Gamba brothers, 1825. 8º. With a wood-engraved author’s portrait as frontispiece. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. € 250

Tenth edition of the official pharmacopoeia of Ferrara, Italy, compiled by the Italian doctor Antonio Campana (1751–1832). The main text is divided into two parts, the first listing simple medicines, the second compound medicines, each medicine followed by a brief description of its uses and medicinal properties. Also included are a list with synonyms, a list of abbreviations and an index.Some marginal thumbing. Binding slightly worn along the extremities, front hinge cracked. Overall in very good condition.

Hirsch I, p. 649.

Very rare Amsterdam edition of a popular collection of medical recipes for the poor,

extensively annotated8. FOUQUET, Marie. Recueil et suite des remedes faciles et domestiques, … Septiéme edition.Amsterdam, [widow of?] Pierre Mortier, [ca. 1715?]. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8º. With engraved frontispiece, repeated in volume 2. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin). € 3500

Very rare Amsterdam edition of Madame Fouquet’s enormously popular collection of medical recipes for the poor. It appeared in more than 50 editions in French and was translated into German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The book opens with a contemporary three-page manuscript note in French retelling the information the bookseller gave the buyer regarding this book. Further with numerous terms translated into Dutch in the margins, including the complete index, in a different, but early hand.With spots throughout, otherwise in good condition and wholly untrimmed. Binding soiled and heavily rubbed, but structurally sound.

KVK & WorldCat (3 copies); Wellcome III, p. 47; cf. BMN I, p. 377 .

Standard English work on distillation, with 46 woodcut illustrations

9. FR ENCH, John. The art of distillation: or, A treatise of the choicest spagyrical preparations, experiments, and curiosities, performed by way of distillation. Together with the description of the choicest furnaces and vessels used by ancient and modern chymists. And the anatomy of gold and silver; ... In six books. ... third impression.Including: The London-distiller, ...London, printed by E. Cotes for T. Williams, 1664. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4º. With about 46 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary tanned sheepskin. € 4500

Third edition of the English standard work on distillation, with about 46 woodcuts showing a wide variety of distilling equipment, bottles and furnaces. At the end is an additional work, The London-distiller, giving detailed instructions for dis-tilling alcoholic drinks and including the regulations of the London Company of Distillers. The sections on sublimation (the conversion of a solid directly into a gas) and calcination (transformation of a solid compound by heating) were added for the first time in the present third edition, giving the work its final extent. John French (1616–1657) was a surgeon in the British army.With 18th-century(?) manuscript notes. There are no endleaves at the front and those at the back have not been pasted down. The leather of the turn-ins has badly browned the margins of the title-page, the book is slightly browned throughout and there are mostly marginal tears on a half dozen leaves, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is slightly rubbed, and cracked at the hinges, and the clasps and most of the strap fastenings are gone. A thorough and well-illustrated standard work on distillation.

ESTC R20178; Wing F2171; cf. Duveen, pp. 230–231; Ferguson I, pp. 292–293.

Fuller’s pharmacopeia together with three other popular pharmaceutical works

10. FULLER, Thomas. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chillias, … Editio nova.Including:– FR AUNDOR FFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica.– CHR ISTI A N, Wolfgang. Thesaurus Ludovicianus, sive compendium materiae med. selectum ex. B. Ludovici pharmacia.– JACK SON, Joseph. Enchiridion medicum practicum, sive tractatus de morborum praxi.Venice, Francesco Pezzana, 1783. 8º. 4 works published as 1. Contemporary tree calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 500

Very rare fourth(?) Venice edition of Fuller’s popular pharmacopeia, first published in 1701. All Venice editions include three additional pharmaceutical works: a collection of recipes by Philipp Fraundorffer first published in 1699, Wolfgang Christian’s “thesaurus” of the work of Daniel Ludwig first published in 1707 and Joseph Jackson’s medical compendium first published in 1698.Thomas Fuller (1654–1734) was an English physician and author. His publishing career began with an appendix to the third edition of the Pharmacopoeia Bateana (1700) of which he later published his own edition (1718). Based on his own collections of recipes were the very popular Pharmacopoeia extemporanea (1701) and Pharmacopoeia domestica (1723) which went through multiple editions both in England and abroad. Exanthematologia, his most important work, on smallpox, was published in 1729, by which time he was almost blind.With the bookplate of the Gouda pharmacist Elize Grendel (1899–1986) on the first blank and an occasional manuscript annotation. A minor waterstain in the head margin of the first and last few leaves and the boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in very good condition.

Wellcome III, p. 76; WorldCat (2 copies?); cf. ICCU 026184 (2 copies of 1776 Venice ed.); this edition not in Blake; ICCU.

Rare commentary on the Ghent pharmacopoeia of 1786

11. [GHENT—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. BAV EGHEM, Petrus van. Pharmacopoea Gandavensis nobilissimi senatus jussu renovata: adjunctae sunt variae adnotationes criticae & instructivae... ejusdem urbis pharmacopoeo.Ghent, Louis Lemaire, 1787. 8º. Contemporary tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spine. € 350

Rare first and only edition of the commentary on the most recent edition of the Ghent pharmacopoeia, which had been published a year before. The author, a pharmacist from Ghent, constantly critiques and ridicules the renovator of the pharmacopoeia’s latest edition. Several unfortunate errors in the formulation of the recipes lead to ironic commentary. For instance, when the pharmacopoeia mentions that all types of water can be used which in the alembic “rises up by itself”, Van Baveghem (1758–1835) writes that he would very much like to own a distilling apparatus which has such amazing features, as fuel has become scarce and costly.Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities; a very good copy.

Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, p. 108; WorldCat (5 copies); Vandewiele, “Nota’s betreffende “Sr. Petrus van Baveghem. vrijen meester apothecaris”” te Gent”, in: Bulletin voor de Geschiedenis van de Pharmacie in Benelux VI (1953), pp. 1–13; not in STCV.

On the simple and compound medicines of the Prussian pharmacopoeia

12. HECK ER, August Friederich. Anleitung zum zweckmaßigen Gebrauche der einfachen und zusammengesetzten Arzneimittel, welche in der Pharmacopoea castrensis Borussica enthalten sind. Eine Beilage zu dem medicinisch-praktischen Taschenbuche für Feldarzte und Wundarzte deutscher Armeen.Berlin, Friedrich Maurer, 1806. Small 8º (14.5 × 9.5 cm). With a wood-en-graved medallion on title-page, depicting both sides, one including a portrait of J. Goercke. Contemporary marbled boards. € 750

First edition of a handbook to the simple and compound medicines contained in the Pharmacopoea Castrensis Borussica (the Prussian pharmacopoeia). The work was compiled by the German doctor August Friedrich Hecker (1763–1811) and was intended for the use of field doctors and surgeons of the German army. The text opens with a brief introduction on the use and effects of the medicines, followed by 280 medicines, arranged alphabetically, with comments on their medicinal proper-ties and uses.With some inscriptions in ink on the title-pag and some notes on the last flyleaf. Some faint water stains. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Overall in very good condition.

Hirsch III, pp. 100–101; not in Wellcome.

Popular Dutch translation of “Pharmacopoea Leovardiensis”,

superseding those of Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague13. [LEEU WA R DEN—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. [ W INTER, Feyo Johannes]. De Leeuwarder apotheek, volgens de Galenische en chimische wyze; … De sesde druk.Amsterdam, Nicolaas de wit, 1731. 12º. With engraved frontispiece showing the interior of a pharmacy by Jan Luyken (unsigned). Modern calf, in a contemporary style. € 750

Very rare sixth edition of the Dutch translation of the Pharmacopoea Leovardiensis first published in Latin in 1687 and completely revised and expanded for the Dutch translation by Feyo Johannes Winter. The Dutch translation of this pharmacopeia proved very popular throughout the country, superseding those of Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague. The translation of the present edition seems to be altered in comparison with the third edition.With the bookplate of Wilhelm F. Daems (1911–1994), a pioneer of anthroposophic pharmacy and an authority on the history of medicine and pharmacy. A restoration in the fore-edge margin of a leaf in the register and some occasional minor thumbing, otherwise in very good condition.

Daems & Vanderwiele, p. 146; STCN (3 copies); V. Eeghen & V.d. Kellen 835; WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 the same).

Ordinance for the Collegium pharmaceuticum of Leiden

14. [LEIDEN— OR DINA NCE]. Ordonnantie voor het Collegium Pharmaceuticum, ende het gehele gilde van de apothekarissen binnen de stadt Leyden.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1718. 4º. With the woodcut coat of arms of Leiden on the title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. € 600

Interleaved copy of the first edition of an ordinance for the Collegium Pharmaceuticum and the apothecary’s guild of Leiden. It contains 32 articles with rules and regulations to which each apothecary should adhere. It often refers to the dispensatorium, in which the minimum number of simple and compound medicines each apothecary should have in stock at any time is stated. Other sections deal with becoming a member of the guild; the con-tributions members pay to the guild; what happens when a widow decides to continue the shop, etc. All the interleaved pages are blank.With some underscoring in black ink and a few marginal water stains. Otherwise in very good condition.

STCN 227942078 (4 copies).

Unofficial Rotterdam pharmacopoeia, later translated into Japanese

15. LIS, Wouter van. Pharmacopoea Galeno- chemico- medica … | Meng- schei- en geneeskonstige artseny-winkel; … Twede druk. Doorgaands door den autheur verbeterd en vermeerderd.Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 4º. With engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette and an engraved plate with chemical symbols. 19th-century blue boards. € 450

Very rare revised and enlarged second edition of the bilingual (Latin and Dutch) pharmacopoeia of Wouter van Lis (1709–1784), a Rotterdam brewer, pharmacist and physician, first published in Rotterdam in 1747. “According to the preface Van Lis wrote this book mainly to improve the official Rotterdam pharmaco-poeia of 1709. But in fact his prescription book is a mixture of a medical and a pharmaceutical textbook wherein the author lays down his knowledge about pharmacy, brewery and medicine. And because all information is very conven-iently arranged the book can be used as an easy-reference manual. Wouter van Lis’ pharmacopeia certainly has drawn attention. A second revised edition was published at Amsterdam in 1764, and this pharmacopoeia was even translated into Japanese by Hashimoto Sôkichie in 1803” (Bierman).Half-title slightly thumbed, but internally otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed, leaving broad margins. Spine tattered, hinges cracked.

Blake, p. 273; STCN (3 copies); Wittop Koning, Compendium …, p. 80; cf. BMN I, p. 381 (1st ed.); Bierman, Wouter van Lis and his Pharmacopoea Galeno-chemico-medicaI (online); not in Wellcome.

Rare sixth edition of the London Pharmacopoeia, printed in Rotterdam

16. [LONDON—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. [ROYA L COLLEGE OF PH YSICI A NS]. Pharmacopoeia collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis.London, for Joseph Johnson and [printed by] Charles Richard Hake, Rotterdam. 1788. 8º. Slightly later half, tanned sheepskin, € 750

Rare sixth edition of the London pharmacopoeia, the first edition influenced by enlight-enment science, printed in Rotterdam. The sixth edition was the first to use the system of binomial plant nomenclature devised by Linnaeus in his Systemae Naturae. More important was the omission of most of the animal materia medica (various parts of animals which included excrement), theriacs and mithridates. This reflected the critique of the English physician William Heberden (1710–1801), who in 1746 had successfully showed that that the belief in theriacs and mithridates, which were believed to be panaceas, was based upon a number of mistakes. Heberden’s critique came too late for the pharmacopoeia of 1746, but the theriacs and mithridates were almost completely absent from the 1788-edition. Among the new medicines in 1788, was Robert James’s patented fever powder, one of the most popular 18th-century patent medicines which was used up until the 20th-century.With owner’s inscription on title-page and a partially trimmed-off marginal manuscript note on p. 127. Binding cracked at hinges, spine cracked, affecting title-label; front endpaper loose. Slight foxing throughout. Internally still a good copy.

ESTC T201275 (6 copies); this edition not in Blake; STCN; Wellcome.

Rare second edition of the official pharmacopoeia of Paris

17. [PA R IS—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. H A R DOUIN DE SA INT-JACQUES, Philippe. Codex medicamentarius seu pharmacopoea Parisiensis. Ex mandato facultatis medicine Parisiensis in lucem edita.Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1645. 4º. 19th-century tanned sheepskin, decorated with ink. € 2750

Rare second edition of the first official pharmacopoeia of Paris, compiled by Philippe de Hardouin de Saint-Jacques (d. 1659), dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Paris. The pharmacopoeia is divided into several chapters, each dealing with a different type of medicine, including waters, syrups, pills, oils, plasters, salves etc. For each medicine the healing properties, ingredients and preparation methods are briefly described.With bookplates and several library stamps. Browned, and with mostly marginal worm holes throughout. A fair copy. Binding only slightly rubbed along the extremities, otherwise very good.

Krivatsky 12060; Wellcome III, p. 209; WorldCat (6 copies).

Dispute between a doctor and an apothecary over a patient’s death

18. [PA SC A L , Jacques (on behalf of)]. Response a l’apologie de M. Esprit André, medecin de Beziers. Pour M. Jacques Pascal apoticaire dudict Beziers.Toulouse, printed by Raymond Colomiez, 1610. 8º. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. € 1850

Extremely rare first and only edition of a salvo in a heated dispute between the master apoth-ecary Jacques Pascal in Beziers on the French Mediterranean coast and the physician Esprit André, professor at the nearby University of Montpelier, after a legal dispute claimed in 1609 that Pascal’s medicines, administered by order of André, caused the death of a master rope maker, Louis Mas in Beziers. We have located only two other copies, at the Bibliotheque d’Etude et du Patrimonie in Toulouse and the City Library in Nîmes.In very good condition. The parchment has nearly separated from the bookblock at the front hinge and the lower outside corner of the parchment in chipped on the front, but the binding is otherwise generally very good also.

Bibliothèque de Toulouse on-line catalogue (1 copy); Cat. Bibl. de Nismes (1836), 9375; not in KVK/WorldCat; SUDOC.

Rare Portuguese pharmacopoeia19. [PORTO —PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. PORTUGA L , Antonio Rodrigues. Pharmacopea Portuense, em a qual se achaõ muitas das compoziçoens que estaõ mais em uzo, e se naõ achaõ nas nossas pharmacopeas portuguezas, tiradas das pharmacopeas de Londres, de Edinburgo, de Pariz, de Fuller, da Medulla, e de outros varios authores.Porto, Francisco Mendes Lima, 1766. 8º. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin. € 850

Rare first and only edition of a Portuguese pharmacopoeia by António Rodrigues Portugal (1738–1788?), a surgeon from the city of Porto, who also translated Pharmacopea Meadiana by Ricardo Mead, published in 1768, from Latin to Portuguese. It is based on the pharmacopoeia of London, Paris, Edinburgh, as well as those by Fuller, Midero, etc.Some dampstaining, lower corners of the boards damaged (affecting the first and last few leaves as well), a fair copy.

J.R. Pita, Brief history of Portuguese pharmacopoeias, p. 6; Porbase (1 copy); Wellcome IV, p. 421; WorldCat (4 copies).

Fourth edition of the Prussian pharmacopoeia, including the appendix

20. [PRUSSI A—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. [LINK, Heinrich Friedrich]. Pharmacopoea Borussica. Editio quarta.Berlin, Academia Regiae Scientarium, 1827.With: (2) [LINK, Heinrich Friedrich]. Appendix ad pharmacopoeam Borussicam. Editionis quartae.Berlin, Carolus Fridericus Plahn (back of title-page: typis G.C. Nauckii), 1829. 2 works in 1 volume. 4º. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment, gold-tooled spine. € 750

Fourth edition of the official pharmacopoeia of Prussia, attributed to the German natu-ralist and botanist Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1851), who wrote the preface. The work opens with a preface and a brief section on the metric system used in the book. The main text is divided into two parts, the first covering medicines that should always be available in any shop, the second containing medicines which are not obligatory to be in stock, each part dividing the medicines in simples and compounds. It closes with an index in Latin and German. The first edition was published in 1799 and was based on the last edition of the Dispensatorium regium et electorale Borusso-Brandenburgicum, published in 1781. The appendix contains some additional medicines and additional information on already included medicines, referring to the page numbers of the pharmacopoeia.Slightly foxed. Binding rubbed, book block slightly detached from binding. Overall in good condition.

Gray, Supplement to the pharmacopoeia, p. 7; Hirsch IV, p. 3.

A milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature

21. [R ICETTA R IO FIOR ENTINO]. Ricettario Fiorentino nuovamente compilato e ridotto all’uso moderno diviso in due parti.Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. Large 4º (28 × 21 cm). With engraved illus-tration on title-page and a decorated engraved initial. 19th-century sheepskin parchment. € 2950

Last edition of the Nuovo ricettario, “a milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature” (Cowen & Helfand), emanating from the guild of Florence physicians and pharmacists and first published in 1498. This pharmacopeia appeared in dozens of editions until 1696 and was followed after almost 100 years by the present and last edition of 1789. “It embodies a list of approved drugs and describes the various methods of preparing them for administration or use, together with the proper weights and measures to be employed for accurate compounding” (Hagelin).Spots and minor water stains throughout, some of the lower corners smudged. In very good condition. Binding very good as well.

Hagelin, p. 82–85; ICCU 023464 (7 copies); cf. Cowen & Helfand, Pharmacy an illustrated history (1990).

Last edition of the pharmacopoeia of Rotterdam, with engraved frontispiece

showing the interior of an apothecary22. [ROTTER DA M—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. Pharmacopoea Roteroda-mensis Galeno-chymica, of Rotterdamsche Galenische en chymische apotheek.Amsterdam, Gerrit de groot, 1736. 12º. With engraved frontispiece (Amsterdam, Nicolaas de Wit). Contemporary (?) plain paper wrappers, without spine. Preserved in a modern dark green cloth box. € 800

Second copy located of the reissue of the already very rare third and last edition of the pharmacopoeia of Rotterdam. This pharmacopoeia was only published in Dutch unlike other (Dutch) pharmacopoeia that would appear only in Latin, or in a later Dutch trans-lation. It includes the frontispiece by Jan Luyken, showing the interior of an apothecary, originally published in the Pharmacopoea Amstelredamensis.With the bookplate of the notable Dutch bookcollector Bob Luza (1893–1980). Some minor foxing to the title-page, but otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed, with the bolts partly unopened. Waterstain to the head of the front wrapper, but binding otherwise good.

Daems & Vanderwiele, p. 174; STCN (1 copy); WorldCat (same copy).

Very rare second edition of the first general pharmacopoeia by an American,

with a list of modern chemical terms23. TA ZEW ELL , William. Vade-mecum medicum, in duas partes divisum, ...Leiden, Abraham and Jan Honkoop, 1800. 12º. Contemporary mottled boards. € 2250

Rare second edition of “the first general (as distinguished from hospital) ‘pharmacopoeia’ compiled by an American” (Cowen), first published at Paris in 1798. The first part of the book is a classification of diseases, and is taken word for word from the influential 1769 nosology by the Scottish physician William Cullen. The second part is a pharmacopoeia, divided into materia medica and composite medicines. The introduction notes that it is based on the author’s notes made at the University of Edinburgh, the London pharmacopoeia and Joseph Townsend’s The physicians’ vade mecum (1794) (p. x). Between the two parts can be found a list translating the Latin names of the chemical preparations, “which not all readers will view as sufficiently legitimate” (p. 77) into the modern English and French nomenclature.William Tazewell (d. 1832) was an American physician who had studied in Edinburgh and in 1797–1800 was secretary to Elbridge Gerry in Paris. After returning to the United States, Tazewell set up a medical practice in Williamsburg and later moved to Virginia. In 1803 he presented copies of his Vade-mecum to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the latter writing that “it has really brought the whole science of diseases & remedies within the shortest compass possible, and, not meddling with the details of the science himself, it presents exactly such a general view of every part of it, as [Jefferson] often wishes to take” (Cowen).With a small price in pen on the first flyleaf. Only some thumbing on the last 30 pages, otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. Boards slightly worn and spine cracked, but still structurally sound.

Cowen, America’s pre-pharmacopoeial literature, pp. 21–22; STCN (1 copy); Founders online (letters to Tazewell from Washington and Jefferson); Wellcome V, p. 241; WorldCat (2 copies).

Medicines for the poor in The Hague24. [THE H AGUE— OR DINA NCE]. Lyst der medicamenten, welke in de stads apotheecq van ‘sGravenhage, moeten worden gevonden tot gebruyk der zieke armen, en buyten welke medicamenten geene anderen door stads doctoren of chirurgyns voor de voors. zieken geordonneert zullen mogen worden.The Hague, Cornelis van Zanten, 1749 (changed in ink to 1748). 4º. With woodcut coat-of-arms of The Hague on the title-page. Bound as sewn. € 375

List of medicines that should be available to the poor in The Hague. Listed are many kinds of roots, herbs, flowers, wood, seeds, fruits, mushrooms, minerals and animal products, but also balsams, waters, pills and plasters.With some faint (water) stains, otherwise in good condition, wholly untrimmed.

STCN 216199042 (5 copies).

Unauthorized Dutch translation of the pharmacopoeia for The Hague

25. [THE H AGUE—PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. Haegsche apo-theek op het gezag der magistraet, door den arbeid der stads-soctoren, volgens, den laetsten vernieuwen en verbeterden Latynsche druk vertaeld.Including: Nareede van den boekverkooper.

The Hague, Johannes de Cros, 1762. 4º. With the title-page printed in red and black with an engraved view of The Hague and a frontispiece engraved by David Coster showing the god of medicine Asklepios. Contemporary red half sheepskin. € 1250

First and only edition of the unauthorized Dutch translation of the official pharmacopoeia of the municipality of The Hague in the Netherlands, first published in Latin by Johannes Tongerlo in 1658 as Pharmacopoea Hagiensis. The index lists about 500 medicines. In some cases the text simply gives the name of the medicine with a reference to a published source, in others it gives a full recipe with the ingredients and instructions for their preparation.Johannes de Cros published the translation without consent of the Collegium Medicorum of The Hague. This lead to a heated argument and De Cros would later add a postscript (8 pp.), as included in the present copy, explain-ing his side of the story.Internally in very good condition; binding used, but structurally sound.

Daems & Vandewiele, p. 113; STCN (9 copies, incl. 4 incomplete).

British military pharmacology during the War of the Austrian Succession,

adapted for use by the general public26. THEOBA LD, John (editor) [and John PR INGLE (compiler)]. Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory: compiled … for the use of the military hospital abroad... The sixth edition.London, J. Whiston, B. White and R. Baldwin, 1761. 12º (16.5 × 9.5 cm). Contemporary calf, with gold fillets. € 350

Sixth edition of a dispensatory originally written for use at the British military hospital in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It was compiled by John Pringle (1707–1782), physician-general of the military hospital, with the help of the Scottish physician John Clerk. By order of the Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), head of the army, the recipes in the dispensatory were fixed as standard for the army hospitals. Apparently on Cumberland’s authority, the dispen-satory was translated and annotated by John Theobald and published as the Medulla medicinae universae in 1747. In the introduction, Theobald particularly mentions the description of and cure for gonorrhoea (an illness “but superficially understood”) as “very minutely and circumstantially handled”. This due to the fact that the army hospital had a “long successful Practice in regard of that unlucky Disorder” (pp. vi-vii).This sixth edition contains not only the original recipes for the army hospital, but also an appendix including variations on the recipes “as such sick frequently grow weary of the same identical Medicine” as well as variations for women and children, four pages of “directions for bleeding” (p. vi).With ownership inscriptions and a small bookplate. With wormholes in the foot margin of the second half of the book, but with only a very minimal loss of text, restricted to the final two leaves and otherwise in good condition. The binding is stained at the sides and worn at the spine, the front hinge almost completely cracked, and the lower half of the first flyleaf detached..

Blake, p. 48; Kopperman, Theory and practice in eighteenth-century British medicine, pp. 56–57; Wellcome IV, p. 102.

The Viennese pharmacopoeia, with an appendix for Brussels

27. [ V IEN NA—BRUSSEL S —PH A R M ACOPOEI A]. Dispensatorium pharmaceuticum Austriaco-Viennense, in quo hodierna die usualiora medicamenta secundum artis regulas componenda visuntur.Brussels, Carolus de Vos and Andreas de Vos, 1747. Large 8º (20 × 11.5 cm). Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 700

Brussels edition of the official dispensatory for the Habsburg Monarchy. Its contents are identical to the second edition of the Viennese pharmacopoeia, but an appendix by the Collegium Medicum of Brussels, containing 30 extra preparations which were commonly used in the city, is added. The first edition of the pharmacopoeia had been published in Vienna 1729, with a second edition appearing in 1737.With a contemporary owner’s inscription on the title-page, which has set off on the opposite fly leaf. Binding lightly worn with the title-label damaged; a very good copy.

Anet (3 copies), Daems & Vandewiele, p. 83; Kletter, “The civil pharmacopoeias of Austria”, International society for the history of pharmacy–history of pharmacopoeias; Wellcome IV, p. 372; WorldCat (9 copies); not in Blake; STCV.

With an eccentric map showing herbs as stars on a celestial chart28. W ÜRTZ , George-Christophe. Conamen mappae generalis medicamentorum simplicium secundum affinitiates virium naturalium nova methodo geographica dispositorum ... cum tabula aenea.Strasbourg, Bauer & Treuttel (colophon: Johann Heinrich Heitz), 1778. 4º. With a large folding engraved map (58 × 62 cm). Sprinkled brown paper on boards. € 1500

First and only edition of an “eccentric” pharmaceutical work by George-Christophe Würtz (1756–1823), a French philosopher and physician. In this work he “attempts to create a map of mental and physiological functions with herbal simples arranged according to the localities they effect. This is illustrated by the plate with the herbs appearing as stars as in a celestial chart” (Quaritch). The text, divided into two parts, discusses the method used and the scientific nature of the relations he found. Due to the completely new approach the present work earned him a respected position within the French and German medical field.Foxed throughout, and with a water stain in the outer margin of the first 50 pages, otherwise a good copy. Binding rubbed along the extremities, spine damaged at the head and foot.

Blake, p. 496; Pritzel 41369; Quaritch, De Belder collection II, 907; cf. Hirsch VI, p. 339 (on the author).

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