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Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Pharmacopée universelle contenant toutes les compositions de pharmacie. 

Avignon, Jean Delorme, 1716.
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450 €

Second edition augmented.
A fundamental treatise by Nicolas Lemery, a renowned French pharmacist and physician. This work presents a comprehensive overview of pharmaceutical preparations used in early 18th-century Europe, accompanied by a pharmaceutical glossary. Lemery is a major figure in modern chemistry and pharmacy.

Photo LOECHES, Juan. 

LOECHES, Juan. 

Tyrocinium pharmaceuticum, theorico practicum, galeno-chymicum. 

Gerone, Narcissi Oliva, 1755.
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250 €

Unusual work of an apothecary from Madrid who delivers us his pharmacopoeia (in latin). Spanish books on pharmacy are rare.

Photo LOECHES, Juan. 

LOECHES, Juan. 

Tyrocinium pharmaceuticum, theorico practicum, galeno-chymicum. 

Barcelon, Joannis Jolis, 1751.
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450 €

Unusual work of an apothecary from Madrid who delivers us his pharmacopoeia (text in latin). Spanish books on pharmacy are rare.

Photo LUDWIG, Daniel || ETTMÜLLER, Michel. 

LUDWIG, Daniel || ETTMÜLLER, Michel. 

Traité du bon choix des médicamens. 

Lyon, Frères Bruyset, 1730.
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200 €

Second french edition.
Galenic Pharmacopoeia translated from texts by German physicians Ludwig (Ludovicus) and Ettmuller.
An important pharmacological treatise, originally published in Latin, intended to guide physicians and pharmacists in the judicious selection of medications. It provides practical and precise advice for choosing the most appropriate remedies for each condition based on their effectiveness, qualities, and potential toxicity.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Explication des plantes usuelles. 

s.l., s.n., [1714].
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Handwritten botany course focusing on "common plants", plants that can be used in medicine.
This course lists 486 plants, each with its Latin binomial name and its therapeutic use.
The plants seem to follow an order whose logic is not explained in the short introduction: "The large number of plants that I will have the honor of discussing with you during the short time that this course will last does not allow me to stop here for a long preface where I could explain to you in general how these same plants act, whether they are considered purgatives or simply as alteratives, [...] I propose to follow the order that we will follow in the demonstrations so that at the same time as you learn to know these same plants, you enter into the knowledge of their virtues."
The Latin names refer to the catalogues of Bauhin (C.B.) and Tournefort (inst. r. h.) which suggests that this course was dictated before the penetration of Linnaeus' classification in France, i.e. before the 1760s.
The structure of this course differs from the known courses on "Usual Plants", as dictated by Chomel and Jussieu.

We find, bound below, a manuscript by the same hand:
"Observations on bone diseases explained and demonstrated by Mr Arnaud In the amphitheater of the Jardin du Roy on June 13, 1714" 42 pages.

This suggests that both courses were taken at the Jardin du Roi or Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants (the future Museum of Natural History from 1793), which at the beginning of the 18th century was a major center for teaching medicine and surgery. It is known that at that time both Antoine Jussieu and Sébastien Vaillant were teaching botany there.

Photo [MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice. 

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice. 

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné. 

[Nancy], [Buc'Hoz], [1762-1770].
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7000 €

Original manuscript of an unpublished botanical treatise by a learned scholar from Nantes.
It presents botanical concepts as well as the classifications of Linnaeus and Tournefort. This manuscript, nearly 200 pages long, is written on the verso of the plates from Buc'hoz’s Flore Lorraine.
All plates are also annotated with details on plant names, their classification according to Linnaeus and Tournefort, and their medicinal uses—together forming a true pharmacopoeia.
These 187 plates were intended to illustrate Buc'hoz’s Traité historique des plantes qui croissent dans la Lorraine et les Trois-Évêchés, published in ten octavo volumes between 1762 and 1770. The plates, originally issued separately in installments and designed to be folded and bound in octavo, are gathered here in a single folio volume.
Buc'hoz, known for the beauty of his plates, had solicited financial support from fellow countrymen and botany enthusiasts for the production of these engravings. Thus, at the bottom of almost every plate, one finds the coat of arms and name of the sponsor who funded it.
Maurice Mahot, the author of this manuscript, sponsored plate 152.
While biographical information on Maurice Mahot “the elder” (1745–1810), a royal counselor, civil and criminal judge at the présidial, alderman (1777), and deputy mayor of Nantes (1779), offers little indication of an interest in natural sciences and botany, the same cannot be said of his son, Maurice Mahot “the younger” (1774–1842), a doctor of medicine and scholar who published several books on medicine and lexicography.
The annotations by the son—a physician—on the plates funded by the father—a botany enthusiast—explain the numerous pharmaceutical and medical recipes found in the work.
Another collector has left his name on the title page: Silas Boucher de la Ville Jossy, a member of a prominent Nantes family in the mid-19th century.
A fascinating manuscript, still largely unexplored, of exceptional character, both for the beauty of its annotated plates and for its content, which intertwines botanical classification and pharmacopoeia.

Photo MATTIOLI, Per André. 

MATTIOLI, Per André. 

Les commentaires de M. P. André Matthiolus, médecin senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen, de la matière médecinale. 

Lyon, Claude Prost, 1655.
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1200 €

Latest revised and corrected edition, expanded.
Translation from Latin into French by Antoine du Pinet.
The work comments on the six books of Dioscorides on medicinal materials, with additions on simple remedies, oils, distillations and the treatment of various diseases. Our edition is illustrated with a full-page portrait of the author and numerous small woodcuts in the text representing a large number of carefully engraved plants, as well as some crustaceans, fish, shellfish, insects, animals, scenes of country life. In fine, Brief discourse on the distillation of water with figures showing distillation apparatus. Mattioli, in addition to his work to match ancient botanical descriptions with contemporary botany, describes more than 100 new plants and notably one of the first European varieties of tomato.

Photo [MAZEAS, Guillaume]. 

[MAZEAS, Guillaume]. 

La pharmacopée des pauvres, accompagnée d'observations sur chaque formule par le docteur W** Membre du Collège Royal de Londres.
Avec des Notes sur l'application des mêmes Remèdes, & une Table des Maladies. 

Paris, Hetissant, 1757.
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200 €

First french edition of this pharmacopoeia.

Photo MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus. 

Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
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500 €

Edition published same year as the first edition in Venice.
Pioneering work on knowledge on poisons.
Some period handwritten annotations in the margins.

Photo ORFILA, Mathieu. 

ORFILA, Mathieu. 

Traité des poisons tirés des règnes minéral, végétal et animal, ou toxicologie générale. 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
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200 €

Second edition.

Photo PASSERAT DE LA CHAPELLE, Claude François. 

PASSERAT DE LA CHAPELLE, Claude François. 

Recueil des drogues simples ou matière médicinale. 

Paris, D'Houry, 1753.
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500 €

First edition.
"It is after an examination of the principles of medicines, of their beneficial qualities, noted by a numerous and regular series of experiments and observations, that it is allowed to make use of them" (extract from the preface ).

Uncommon pharmacopoeia.

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[PHARMACOPEE]. 

Codex, Pharmacopée française. 

Paris, Béchet Jeune, 1839.
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60 €

1839 edition of the Codex Medicamentarius, a directory of medicines published by the Faculty of Medicine.

Photo QUINCY, John. 

QUINCY, John. 

Pharmacopée universelle raisonnée. 

Paris, D'Houry Père, Delespine & Laurent d'Houry, 1749.
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480 €

First french edition.

Photo QUINTI, Joseph. 

QUINTI, Joseph. 

Les admirables secrets de la médecine chimique qu'il a recueillis avec beaucoup de soin & de travail : lesquels ont été plus d'une fois expérimentez par lui-même en plusieurs infirmitez, & maladies dangereuses. 

A Liège et se vend à Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1711.
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450 €

Rare first edition in french
Ferguson says that it's a translation of a collection of secrets by Domenico Auda.
Works divided into four books containing formulas on hermetic medicine, recipes for removing stains, to recognize if the coral, porcelain and pearls are counterfeit, for making varnishes, lacquers, stains, perfumes, ...

The last book is dedicated to the astrology useful and necessary for doctors.

Photo RENOU, Jean. 

RENOU, Jean. 

Dispensatorium medicum, contineus : Institutionum pharmaceuticarum lib. V ; de Materia medica lib. III ; Pharmacopeam itidem, sive Antidotarium varium et absolutissimum. 

Paris, Apud Societatem Minimam, 1623.
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450 €

Jean de Renou (1568-1620) is a French doctor who treated the three kings Henri, his pharmaceutical dispensary was a great success and was reissued many times in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Photo RENOU, Jean de. 

RENOU, Jean de. 

Les oeuvres Pharmaceutiques. 

Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1624.
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Scarce first edition in french, translated from latin by Louis de Serres.
This work is considered as the bible of the apothecary (Dominique Kassel, La Pharmacie au Grand Siècle, p. 3).
Topics such as ethics and tooling tips are treated with a precision that has never been achieved.
That's why Renou's book, after having served as an ABC for several generations of pharmacists, has now become a valuable source of information for the history of pharmacy.

Photo ROUSSEAU, Abbé. 

ROUSSEAU, Abbé. 

Secrets et remèdes éprouvez dont les préparations ont été faites au Louvre. 

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1697.
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First edition.
Work published posthumously by Rousseau de la Grangerouze, the brother of Abbot Rousseau, who was a Capuchin monk at the Louvre alongside Abbot Tranquille.
It contains the recipes for Baume Tranquille (a powerful sleeping pill based on Henbane, Poppy and Nightshade) and Rousseau's Laudanum, which made the reputation of the Capuchins of the Louvre.
Here he reveals the secret.
Note the experiment noted by Dorbon, which consisted of killing a toad by looking at it... an experiment that once almost turned out to be unfavorable for the abbot, a toad with a glowing red gaze having left him in a state of weakness for several days.

Photo SAGE, Balthazar-George. 

SAGE, Balthazar-George. 

Expériences propres à faire connoitre que l'alkali volatil-fluor est le remède le plus efficace dans les asphyxies;. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1777.
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90 €

Balthazard Georges Sage (1740-1824) is a French chemist.
In this book he promotes the therapeutic virtues of volatile alkali (ammonia) in various uses, asphyxia, viper bites or rabies.

Photo SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio. 

SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio. 

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova. 

Padoue, Pauli Frambotti, 1651.
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800 €

Second edition.
Marco Auelio Severino (1580-1656) was a prominent Italian anatomist and surgeon. In 1610, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Naples. His work, "Vipera Pythia," deals with venomous snakes, their anatomy, venom, and medicinal properties and virtues. It provides extensive information on the mythology, superstitions, and occult traditions surrounding snakes.

Many of the engravings, mostly full-page, depict mythological images as well as pagan deities, symbols, and idols associated with snakes.

Photo SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel. 

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel. 

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale. 

Paris, Librairie médicale de Crochard, 1833.
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450 €

Second edition.
Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel de Smyttère (1800-1886) was a French physician, botanist and historian. His work, inspired by the classifications of Candolle, offers classification tables where medicinal properties are highlighted.
"I conceived the project of demonstrating, through application, the link that unites natural history to therapeutics" (extract from the preface).

Photo [SOCIETE DE MEDECINE ET DE PHARMACIE DE LA HAUTE-VIENNE]. 

[SOCIETE DE MEDECINE ET DE PHARMACIE DE LA HAUTE-VIENNE]. 

Bulletin de la Société de médecine et de pharmacie de la Haute-Vienne - 1855. 

Limoges, Chapoulaud Frères, 1855.
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40 €

First edition.

Photo STORCK, Antoine. 

STORCK, Antoine. 

Observations nouvelles sur l’usage de la cigüe. 

Vienne / Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1762.
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150 €

Storck was one of the first to promote the internal use of hemlock for medical treatments. His experiments were instrumental in the controlled reintroduction of this poison into pharmacopoeia. He is famous for having conducted experiments on himself to test the boundary between therapeutic doses and toxic and lethal doses.

Photo TAUVRY, Daniel. 

TAUVRY, Daniel. 

Traité des médicamens, et la manière de s’en servir. 

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1695.
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Second edition.
This medical-pharmaceutical treatise links pharmacology and clinical experience. Tauvry (1669-1701), a French physician and anatomist, combines recipes, pathologies, and dosages, reflecting the empirical evolution of modern medicine.

Photo TENCKE, H. (Jerôme). 

TENCKE, H. (Jerôme). 

Formules de médecine tirées de la pharmacie galénique et chymique. 

Lyon, Jean Certe, 1690.
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300 €

Second edition in French.
This work by Jerôme Tencke (?-1687), a physician from Montpellier, is a treatise on pharmacy that combines galenic and chemical approaches to medicine. It presents various formulas and methods for preparing pharmaceutical remedies. The book is part of a transitional period where traditional galenic pharmacy rubbed shoulders with new chemical approaches to medicine.

Photo TERREDE, Simon Pierre Antoine. 

TERREDE, Simon Pierre Antoine. 

Examen analytique des eaux minérales des environs de L'Aigle en Haute Normandie. 

Paris, Vincent, 1776.
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First edition.
Bound up with :
HUET DE LA MARTINIERE, Dissertation sur l'examen analytique des eaux minérales des environs de l'Aigle, Genève, Glaçon, 1776

[TERREDE], Réflexions sur une brochure intitulée: dissertation..., [sl, sd]

Meeting of three rare works on the analysis of mineral waters around L'Aigle (Saint-Santin, Gauville, Irai ...).
The mineral waters of Saint-Santin were discovered in 1598 and met with some success in the 17th century, then were forgotten. The progress of 18th century chemistry led two doctors from L'Aigle to dispute their analysis and try to promote their therapeutic interest, but the mineral waters of the country of L'Aigle will again fall into oblivion.
A very good copy.

Photo [TESSARI, Ludovico]. 

[TESSARI, Ludovico]. 

Materia Medica Contracta. 

Venise, Nicolai Pezzana, 1762.
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450 €

First edition.
A rare work by Ludovico Tessari which proposes a pharmacopoeia classified according to the three kingdoms of nature: mineral, vegetable, animal.
For each compound, it is proposed the medical use that can be made.
Beautiful venitian print.

Photo VITET, Louis. 

VITET, Louis. 

Pharmacopée de Lyon ou exposition méthodique des médicaments simples et composés. 

Lyon, Perisse, 1778.
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850 €

First edition.

Photo [WEBER, Georges Adolph]. 

[WEBER, Georges Adolph]. 

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action. 

s.l., s.n., 1831.
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1200 €

Manuscript proposing one of the first directories of homeopathic medicines in the French language through a translation of the work by Georg Adolph Weber: "Systematische Darstellung der reinen Arzneiwirkungen aller bisher geprüften Symptome" published in German in 1831.
The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the remedies put to date in experience" (Geneva, Cherbuliez, 1833).
Our manuscript uses the same two-part structure as the German edition and should probably precede the French edition. The binding is typical of the 1830s, we are thus at the very beginning of the development of homeopathy in Europe under the impetus of the German school directed by Hannemahn (1755-1843) of whom Weber was a disciple.
It is in Switzerland and in Lyon that homeopathy in French language develops, Count Sébastien Des Guidi creates in 1830 the Homeopathic Society Lyonnaise and opens its consultations, there are 5 or 6 homeopaths in France in 1832 then 25 in 1833, 52 in 1835. (Cf. Bariety, "The beginnings of homeopathy in France", 1969)

Witness to the beginnings of homeopathy in France.

Photo ZWELFER, Johann. 

ZWELFER, Johann. 

Pharmacopoeia Regia, seu dispensatoium novum locupletatum et absolutum, annexa etiam mantissa spagyrica [...]
[suivi de]
Discursus Apologeticus Joannis Zwelferi, medicinae doct. adversus Hippocratem chymicum Ottonis Tackenii [...]
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Animadversiones in Pharmacopoeiam Augustanam et annexam ejus mantissam, sive Pharmacopoeia Augustana Reformata [...]
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Appendix ad Animadversiones in Pharmacopoeiam Augustanam, ejus que annexam mantissam [...]. 

Nuremberg, Michaelis & Johann. Friderici, 1668 - 1668 - 1667.
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This volume contains a collection of the most important pharmaceutical works of Johann Zwelfer (1618-1668, German physician, chemist and pharmacist). He is best known for correcting errors in the formulation of the remedies published in the "Pharmacopoeia Augustana", which corresponds to the "Augsburg Code" (a compilation of many remedies very commonly used by German physicians), and which he published in his "Animadversiones in Pharmacopoeiam Augustanam". He enjoyed great popularity, but was also much belittled by his German colleagues, such as Luc Schroeck.
His "Pharmacopoeia Regia" is an encyclopaedic pharmacopoeia.

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