Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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[FRÉMONT D’ABLANCOURT (Nicolas)].

Dialogues de la Santé.

Paris, Pierre Auboüin, 1683.

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1200 €

First edition of this singular work in which cooking and health play the main roles.

CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Jacob.

Le Chirurgien François Charitable comprenant le droit usage des principales Operations & des principaux remèdes de Chirurgie et le moyen de s'en servir dans la cure particulière des maladies extérieures du corps humain.

Lyon, Jean Certe, 1683.

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250 €

Second edition.
Swiss doctor, Jacob Constant de Rebecque made himself known with his trilogy of "charitables": the charitable surgeon, the charitable doctor and the charitable apothecary.

BLEGNY, Nicolas de.

Le Remède Anglois Pour la Guérison Des Fièvres.

Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1682.

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First edition.
The first French book promoting Quinine for the treatment of fevers.
If Europe already knew cinchona, it was the English doctor Talbot who managed to make it popular.
"Talbot had found a way to present cinchona in such a way that it did not put off the sick. [...] Since 1678 he had been the personal physician of King Charles II, had come to France during that same year to look after little Mademoiselle. [...] He treats the dauphin and the whole royal family, and he is amply rewarded by the king who grants him naturalization." (Talbot, popularizer of cinchona in France: M. Bouvet, in Bulletin of Pharmacological Sciences, 1934. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 22nd year, n°86, 1934. pp. 307-308.)

Following the relapse of some patients he had treated, we turned away of him and he returns to England taking with him his fortune and the secret of his "English remedy".
The king then asked Nicolas de Blegny, his doctor, to publish this book delivering the recipe for the preparation and use of quinine. A chapter is also devoted to the history and use of opium.

LOWER, Richard.

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679.

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1500 €

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

MASSARD, Jacques.

Panacée, ou discours sur les Effets singuliers d'un Remède experimenté, & commode pour la guérison de la pluspart des longues maladies; même de celles qui semblent incurables.

Grenoble, Chez l'Auteur, 1679.

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300 €

First edition.
Book describing Massard's Panacea, which is supposed to cure all ills. Many cases of cures come to praise its virtues.

GLISSON, Francis.

Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, de partibus continentibus in genere, & in specie, de iis abdominis.

Amsterdam, Jacobum Juniorem, 1677.

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300 €

Edition published same year as the first published in London.

DE LA FONT, Charles.

Dissertationes duae medicae de veneno pestilenti, in quarum priori agitur de veneni pestilentis natura et causis [...].

Avignon, Pierre Offray, 1670.

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600 €

First edition.
Work devoted to the Plague whose author defends that it would be due to the corrosive action of saline vapors (such as Arsenic or Mercury). It comes to contradict certain position of the Englishman Thomas Willis on this subject. Europe and more particularly England then just experienced an epidemic of the Great Plague.

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van.

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte.

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.

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850 €

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

WILLIS, Thomas.

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1670.

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450 €

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

[BONET, Théophile].

Observations et histoires chyrurgiques tirées des Oeuvres de quatre excellens médecins.

Genève, Pierre Chouët, 1669.

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350 €

French translation and observations of Bonet from the works of Pierre La Forêt, Félix Plater, Balthazar Timaeus and Pierre de Marchettis.

[Barbiers chirurgiens].

Arrest d'audience du parlement confirmatif de l'union des chirurgiens jurez, & barbiers chirurgiens. A la charge de soubmission à la faculté de médecine. Avec défense de prendre qualité de bacheliers, licentiez, docteurs & college : faire lectures ny actes publics : porter robes, ny bonnets, prononcé le septieme febvrier 1660.

Paris, François Muguet, 1660.

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750 €

First edition.

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

Lyon, Jean Aymée Candy, 1652.

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600 €

Jean-Jacques Wecker (1528-1585) German physician, philosopher and alchemist. This book contains beauty secrets, advice on destroying parasites, information on dyes, varnishes and gilding, gardening, preserving fruit, making ink, how to remove stains, amusing physics tricks... and more esoteric chapters on demons and alchemy.

BACHOT, Etienne.

Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.

Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1646.

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600 €

First edition.
Doctor-poet, Étienne Bachot (1608-1688) here chose the French language to defend bloodletting. If the use of bloodletting was then, in the middle of the seventeenth century, at its peak; some criticisms began to appear. With his membership in the Paris faculty, Bachot answers them in this work.

BEVERWYCK, Jan van.

De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.

Leyden, Elzevier, 1638.

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1500 €

First edition of this famous work in urology, one of the earliest medical books to accept William Harvey's account of the circulation of the blood.

Bound after, two rare books on the plague :
- PAAW, Pierre. Tractatus de Peste. Leyde, Abraham Commelini, 1636
- Theodore de BEZE. De Pestis Contagio et Fuga. 1636

RARE COPY WITH THE ARMS OF FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTE DE THOU.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.

Venise, Iuntas, 1601.

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1000 €

Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.

"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

FOESIO, Anutio, HIPPOCRATE.

Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis opera omnia quae extant.

Francofurdi, Andrea Wecheli, 1595.

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1800 €

First edition of this important translation from greek to latin of the Hippocratic corpus.
Remains the reference until its replacement by the French edition of Littre [1839-1861].

The Hippocrates works are a set of sixty text written between 450 and 350 bc.
During the sixteenth century, scholars have gradually given rise to the Hippocratic Corpus in Latin, which was current until its replacement by the French edition of Littre [1839-1861].

The editions that enabled this achievement are the first editions in Latin (1525 in Rome) and Greek (1526, Aldus), which led to the discovery of manuscripts hitherto virtually unknown.
Then came the Basel editions of 1538 and 1546 (Froben) that led to the systematic correction of many first editions.
Finally, in 1595, the doctor of Metz Anuce Foes (1528-1595) printed this important bilingual edition that became the reference until the Littré works 250 years later.

Fresh copy of this rare and important edition of the works of Hippocrate.

PICHOTUS, Petrus.

De rheumatismo, catharrho variisque a cerebro destillationibus, & horum curatione Libellus.

Burdigalae, S. Millangium, 1577.

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900 €

Rare first edition.
It's the first use of the word "rheumatism".
The root ‘rheum’ refers to bodily fluids rather than ‘rheumatism’ as we know it today.
This book is about curing the common cold, rather than ailments of the joints.

GORDON, Bernard (de).

Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum.

Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1574.

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1500 €

A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

MONTEUX, Jerôme de.

Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit.

Paris, Simon Calvarin, à l'enseigne de la Rose blanche couronnée, 1572.

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800 €

Second french edition.
Jérôme de Monteux, lord of Miribel, gave birth to Catherine de Médicis of the future François II and was medical adviser to Henri II.
Treatise on medicine borrowing from the ancients their advice for leading a healthy life: dietetics, sleep, economy of passions.
Published in Latin in 1557, we discover implicitly what daily life could be like at the court of France in the middle of the 16th century.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae nostris temporibus ignoratae libri sex.

Venise, Iuntas, 1569.

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2000 €

First edition.

Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), when the body had been somewhat neglected by the medieval culture, was inspired by the principle of Juvénal: Mens sana in corpore sano and offers us by studying the texts of antiquity the first book of gymnastic.
"[...] its knowledge interests any man who professes medicine, especially since one finds in Hippocrates, Plato and Galen the affirmation repeated over and over again according to which exercises, if one wishes to lead a healthy life, provide benefits so great and so numerous that it is scarcely that the other resources of medicine provide so many. " (translation of part of book III)

"Heir to the galenic tradition, Mercuriale draws from Greek and Latin literature, but also from his contemporaries. Using both his medical knowledge and the achievements of antiquaria, he wrote the first treatise on gymnastics in our history, the 6 books of De Arte Gymnastica "(Jean-Michel Agasse," Le De arte gymnastica de Girolamo Mercuriale: archeology and body culture in the Renaissance ", doctoral thesis)

The folding board is the proposal for a Gymnasium plan.

HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean.

Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins.

Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1550.

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2500 €

First edition in french.
These aphorisms are considered one of the founding texts of Western medicine. They contain principles and observations about health, disease and medical practice.
Each Aphorism in Latin is followed by its translation and commentary in French.
Some handwritten notes in the margins of writing from the beginning of the 17th century.

HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus].

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, Opera, quae ad nos extant, omnia.

Venise, apud Vicentium Valgrisium, 1546.

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950 €

Rare Venice edition of the works of Hippocrates by the humanist physician Janus Cornarius (1500-1558).

The printing is the work of Vicenzo Valgrisi one of the most famous printers of Venice in the 16th century, his typographic work is of high quality.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

[FRÉMONT D’ABLANCOURT (Nicolas)].

Dialogues de la Santé.

First edition of this singular work in which cooking and health play the main roles.

CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Jacob.

Le Chirurgien François Charitable comprenant le droit usage des principales Operations & des principaux remèdes de Chirurgie et le moyen de s'en servir dans la cure particulière des maladies extérieures du corps humain.

Second edition.Swiss doctor, Jacob Constant de Rebecque made himself known with his trilogy of "charitables": the charitable surgeon, the charitable doctor and the charitable apothecary.

BLEGNY, Nicolas de.

Le Remède Anglois Pour la Guérison Des Fièvres.

LOWER, Richard.

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.

First edition in french.This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

MASSARD, Jacques.

Panacée, ou discours sur les Effets singuliers d'un Remède experimenté, & commode pour la guérison de la pluspart des longues maladies; même de celles qui semblent incurables.

First edition.Book describing Massard's Panacea, which is supposed to cure all ills. Many cases of cures come to praise its virtues.

GLISSON, Francis.

Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, de partibus continentibus in genere, & in specie, de iis abdominis.

Edition published same year as the first published in London.

DE LA FONT, Charles.

Dissertationes duae medicae de veneno pestilenti, in quarum priori agitur de veneni pestilentis natura et causis [...].

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van.

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte.

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

WILLIS, Thomas.

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain."One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

[BONET, Théophile].

Observations et histoires chyrurgiques tirées des Oeuvres de quatre excellens médecins.

French translation and observations of Bonet from the works of Pierre La Forêt, Félix Plater, Balthazar Timaeus and Pierre de Marchettis.

[Barbiers chirurgiens].

First edition.

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

BACHOT, Etienne.

Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.

BEVERWYCK, Jan van.

De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.

Third edition.The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale. "De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

FOESIO, Anutio, HIPPOCRATE.

Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis opera omnia quae extant.

PICHOTUS, Petrus.

De rheumatismo, catharrho variisque a cerebro destillationibus, & horum curatione Libellus.

Rare first edition. It's the first use of the word "rheumatism". The root ‘rheum’ refers to bodily fluids rather than ‘rheumatism’ as we know it today. This book is about curing the common cold, rather than ailments of the joints.

GORDON, Bernard (de).

Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum.

A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages. The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

MONTEUX, Jerôme de.

Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae nostris temporibus ignoratae libri sex.

HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean.

Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins.

HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus].

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, Opera, quae ad nos extant, omnia.

Rare Venice edition of the works of Hippocrates by the humanist physician Janus Cornarius (1500-1558). The printing is the work of Vicenzo Valgrisi one of the most famous printers of Venice in the 16th century, his typographic work is of high quality.

Second edition.
Swiss doctor, Jacob Constant de Rebecque made himself known with his trilogy of "charitables": the charitable surgeon, the charitable doctor and the charitable apothecary.

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

First edition.
Book describing Massard's Panacea, which is supposed to cure all ills. Many cases of cures come to praise its virtues.

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.

"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

Rare first edition.
It's the first use of the word "rheumatism".
The root ‘rheum’ refers to bodily fluids rather than ‘rheumatism’ as we know it today.
This book is about curing the common cold, rather than ailments of the joints.

A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

Rare Venice edition of the works of Hippocrates by the humanist physician Janus Cornarius (1500-1558).

The printing is the work of Vicenzo Valgrisi one of the most famous printers of Venice in the 16th century, his typographic work is of high quality.