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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 COLIN, Antoine || ORTA, Garcia (da) || ACOSTA, Cristóbal || MONARDES, Nicolas. 

COLIN, Antoine || ORTA, Garcia (da) || ACOSTA, Cristóbal || MONARDES, Nicolas. 

Histoire des drogues, espiceries et de certains médicamens simples qui naissent es Indes tant orientales qu'occidentales. 

Lyon, Jean Pillehotte, 1602.
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1200 €

First edition in French.
Work translated from Latin by Antoine Colin from the treatises of Garcia da Orta (Gracie du Jardin) and Cristobal Acosta (Christophe De la Coste), Portuguese physicians, and that of Nicola Monardes (a physician from Seville).
The History of Drugs is a pharmacopoeia of plants from India and the Americas; it is one of the first books on exotic botany published in vernacular French.
The book lists the plants, fruits, animal and mineral spices of India and the New World, as well as their curative qualities, most of which were unknown to Europeans. The work includes a nomenclature in French, sometimes accompanied by the common name in other languages, notably that of the country of origin.
These treatises are adorned with 132 woodcuts drawn by Pieter van der Borcht and Charles de l'Ecluse.

Photo CATELAN, Laurent. 

CATELAN, Laurent. 

Discours et démonstration des ingrédiens de la Thériaque. 

Lyon, Jacques Mallet, 1614.
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900 €

Rare first edition.
Theriac was a universal potion. It was the panacea that is applied to all kinds of diseases. It was also supposed to possess admirable virtues to extend life.
It was also used as against poison.

There were many different receipt of theriac, but that of Montpellier, which contained 83 ingredients, selected and prepared with care, was one of the most famous.

Catelan contributed to the reputation of the Theriac by conducting public meetings where he prepared and explained the benefits of this remedy.

Theriac is composed of four groups of powders :
- A first group of expectorant, purgative and expectorant powder
- A second group of tonics
- A third group of foods
- In the fourth group came 17 components, the most effective was opium

This book presents the content of the 15 conferences on the preparation of the Theriac of Montpellier given by Catelan.

Photo COLIN, Antoine || ORTA, Garcia (da) || ACOSTA, Cristóbal || ALPINI, Prosper || MONARDES, Nicolas. 

COLIN, Antoine || ORTA, Garcia (da) || ACOSTA, Cristóbal || ALPINI, Prosper || MONARDES, Nicolas. 

Histoire des drogues, espiceries et de certains médicamens simples qui naissent es Indes tant orientales qu'occidentales. 

Lyon, Jean Pillehotte, 1619.
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600 €

Second edition in French.
Work translated from Latin by Antoine Colin from the treatises of Garcia da Orta (Gracie du Jardin) and Cristobal Acosta (Christophe De la Coste), Portuguese physicians, and that of Nicola Monardes (a physician from Seville).
The History of Drugs is a pharmacopoeia of plants from India and the Americas; it is one of the first books on exotic botany published in vernacular French.
The book lists the plants, fruits, animal and mineral spices of India and the New World, as well as their curative qualities, most of which were unknown to Europeans. The work includes a nomenclature in French, sometimes accompanied by the common name in other languages, notably that of the country of origin.
These treatises are adorned numerous woodcuts drawn by Pieter van der Borcht and Charles de l'Ecluse.

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 LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes. 

Paris, Rollin Baragnes, 1628.
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700 €

First edition.
Guy de La Brosse was Louis XIII's regular physician and founder of the Jardin du Roi (ancestor of the Jardin des Plantes). The last part, entitled "Dessein d'un Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales", presents the project for the future Jardin des Plantes.
While the author remains famous for having successfully completed this project, he is also known for having been one of the first French Paracelsians. This work, one of the first great French botanical treatises, detailing the medicinal virtues of plants, their classification and their therapeutic use, is very much inspired by Bacon and Paracelsus. The book illustrates in a very clear way one of the schools of thought of the nascent revolution, that of Paracelsianism.

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 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 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 [...]
[suivi de]
Animadversiones in Pharmacopoeiam Augustanam et annexam ejus mantissam, sive Pharmacopoeia Augustana Reformata [...]
[suivi de]
Appendix ad Animadversiones in Pharmacopoeiam Augustanam, ejus que annexam mantissam [...]. 

Nuremberg, Michaelis & Johann. Friderici, 1668 - 1668 - 1667.
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1500 €

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.

Photo CHARAS, Moyse. 

CHARAS, Moyse. 

Histoire naturelle des animaux, des plantes, & des minéraux qui entrent dans la composition de la Thériaque d'Andromachus. 

Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1668.
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1000 €

Rare first edition.
Theriac was a universal potion. It was the panacea that is applied to all kinds of diseases. It was also supposed to possess admirable virtues to extend life.
It was also used as against poison.
There were many different receipt of theriac, but that of Andromachus is the original.
Charas became famous by public meetings where he prepared and explained the Theriac.
In this book Charas gives the receiped of the Andromachus Theriac.
A very good and fresh copy.

Photo GLASER, Christophle. 

GLASER, Christophle. 

Traité de la Chymie. 

Lyon, Pierre & Benoit Bailly, 1670.
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900 €

Third augmented edition.
Christophe Glaser (1629-1672?) Is a Swiss doctor and pharmacist who became ordinary apothecary of King Louis XIV. Nicolas Lemery will be trained at Glaser but quickly leaves him not supporting his almost esoteric teaching.
Glaser crosses the history in the poison case. It is most probably in her pharmacy that the Marquise de Brinvilliers obtained the vials of poison. According to his testimony Glaser was sent to Italy by Fouquet to learn the secrets of Italian poisons.
Caillet attributes this book to Moyse Charas, who indeed mentions in the preface to his Thériaque that he published a Treatise on Chemistry under the name of Glaser.

We find in this book, curious preparations such as human skull oil or the distillation of viper flesh.

Photo CHESNEAU, Nicolas. 

CHESNEAU, Nicolas. 

La Pharmacie théorique nouvellement recueillie de divers autheurs. 

Paris, F. Léonard, 1670.
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250 €

Second edition enriched by a treatise on chemical remedies.


Nicolas Chesneau (1601? -1680?) Doctor, graduated from the faculty of Toulouse exercised in Marseille.
In the preamble, a sonnet written by R. Dares summarizes the work as follows:
"You run everywhere from shop to shop,
And pretend seeing various practitioners
Acquire the reputation of true pharmacists;
Learn from Chesneau rather the theoretical.

He gathered you from a methodical order,
All that the writers, Hebreux, Egyptians
Greeks, Arabs, Latins, new or old,
have left in writing of the Pharmaceutical Art ".

Photo DIGBY, Kenelm (Chevalier). 

DIGBY, Kenelm (Chevalier). 

Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée [...] touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. 

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1681.
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200 €

New edition containing in a second part the Dissertation on the powder of sympathy, translated in french from the Latin of Mr. Papin
Kenelm Digby (1603 – 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat, and an alchemist. Explaining everything by occult causes, fermentation, and effluvia, he thought he could cure with the “Powder of Sympathy”, a preparation of pulverized and calcined vitriol supposed to act, even at a distance, on wounds and injuries.

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 TAUVRY, Daniel. 

TAUVRY, Daniel. 

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

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1695.
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120 €

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 ROUSSEAU, Abbé. 

ROUSSEAU, Abbé. 

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

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1697.
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400 €

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 ETTMULLER, Michel || SCHRÖDER, Johann. 

ETTMULLER, Michel || SCHRÖDER, Johann. 

La Pharmacopée raisonnée de Schroder, commentée par Michel Ettmuller. 

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1698.
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450 €

Ettmüller was member of the Naturae Curiosum Academia of Leipzig. He died during one of his chemical experience.

Photo BATE, George. 

BATE, George. 

Pharmacopoea Bateana. 

Lyon, Apud Amabilem Auroy, 1704.
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200 €

George Bate (1608-1668) was physician to Charles I and II of England and Oliver Cromwell's family.
Unusual English pharmacopoeia.

Photo CHARAS, Moyse. 

CHARAS, Moyse. 

Pharmacopée Royale Galénique et Chymique. 

Lyon, Anisson & Posuel, 1704.
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New revised edition corrected and enlarged by the author.
Pharmacist born in Uzès in 1618, Charas studied chemistry at Orange, then he came early to Paris, where he was appointed demonstrator in chemistry at the royal garden of the king.
His writings are still marked by the alchemical theories.

His pharmacy is the fruit of his lectures given in Paris and his studied. It had a great success, was reprinted many times and was translated into all European languages and even in Chinese for the convenience of the Emperor.
There are descriptions of many preparations, recipes and other remedies panacea.
Enlarged edition with at the end the "traité abrégé des eaux minérales de France."
Allegorical engraved frontispiece six engraved plates of copper furnaces, tools, pots and retorts, chemical symbols, etc.

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 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 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 CAPELLO, Giovanni Battista. 

CAPELLO, Giovanni Battista. 

Lessico farmaceutico-chimico. 

Venise, Tommaso Bettinelli, 1745.
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150 €

"Pharmacico-chemical Lexicon containing the most used remedies today" by Giovanni Battista Capello, Italian pharmacist.
Famous Italian pharmacopoeia which will be reissued throughout the eighteenth century, there are notably three theriac recipes.

Photo AILHAUD, Jean. 

AILHAUD, Jean. 

Traité de l’origine des maladies et de l’usage de la poudre purgative. 

Avignon, Esprit-Joseph Rousset, 1748.
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100 €

Third edition.
Jean d'Ailhaud (1675-1756), a native of Lourmarin, a doctor of medicine and surgeon, became famous throughout Europe for having invented a medicinal powder to which he gave his name and which brought him fortune. His Treatise is a veritable advertising brochure extolling the benefits of his powder. Copy duly signed by the author's son, associated with the Ailhaud powder business.

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 BARBEYRAC, Charles. 

BARBEYRAC, Charles. 

Medicamentorum constitutio seu formulae Caroli Barbeirac. 

Lyon, Frères De Tournes, 1751.
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150 €

First edition.
Apocryphal work probably written from notes transmitted by Antoine Sidobre (16 ..- 1749) the nephew of Charles Barbeyrac (1649-1699) and put in order by students of the medical school of Montpellier.

Unusual pharmacopoeia.

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 BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François. 

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François. 

Dissertation sur les médicamens qui affectent certaines parties du corps humain plutôt que d'autres; & sur la cause de cet effet. 

Bordeaux, Pierre Brun, 1752.
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150 €

Rare plaquette printed in Bordeaux of this dissertation of Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1767) "who won the prize in the judgment of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sciences & Arts of Bordeaux".

The author who was a doctor and naturalist at the faculty of Montpellier, questions the mode of action and the diffusion of drugs in the human body. What pharmacists today would call pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.

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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