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PACIUS, Julius.

Enantiophanon [graece] seu legum conciliatarum centuriae decem.

Lyon, Petri Ravaud, 1643.

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150 €

This book deals with law and was written by by Giulio Pace da Beriga (1550-1635), who was a recognized professor of law and an Italian jurisconsult.

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.

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 ".

MYNSICHT, Adrian von.

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum.

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1640.

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1500 €

Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) is a German physician and alchemist. In his Thesaurus, he gives us his best recipes of ointments, emplatres, liqueurs for medicine. As always at this time, chemistry, alchemy and pharmacopoeia are closely intertwined.
In the Testamentum Hadrianeum following the Thesaurus, we are given in a versified form the secret of the philosopher's stone of Mynsicht.
Rare edition not spotted by Ferguson, nor Caillet.

LE GIVRE, Pierre.

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides.

Paris, Jean Ribou, 1667.

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450 €

First edition.
A rare work by Pierre Le Givre (1618-1684) French doctor who had made a specialty of the study of mineral waters.
The book is particularly interested in the water of Provins, the author attempts an analysis of its composition and publishes several letters from his opponents to which he responds.

[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.

LA GARAYE, Claude Tousaint Marot, Comte de.

Chymie hydraulique, pour extraire les sels essentiels des végétaux, animaux & minéraux, par le moyen de l'eau pure.

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1775.

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750 €

Second edition. Interresting for the Parmentier addtions and much rarer than the first.

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763.

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450 €

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).
Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1745.

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150 €

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph.

Elémens de chymie théorique.

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1749.

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400 €

First edition.
This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

BACHELET, Théodore || DEZOBRY, Charles.

Dictionnaire général des lettres, des beaux-arts et des sciences morales et politiques.

Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1886.

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50 €

LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Lectures pour tous ou extraits des oeuvres générales de Lamartine.

Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1860.

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40 €

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French poet, novelist, playwright and political figure who was envolved in the Revolution of February 1848, and proclaimed the Second Republic. He is one of the great figures of romanticism in France.

REUMONT, Gerhard || MONHEIM, Johann Peter Joseph.

Analyse des eaux sulfureuses d'Aix-La-Chapelle.

Aix La Chapelle, J.G. Beaufort, 1810.

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90 €

First edition signed by the author Gerhard Reumont (1765-1828).

German doctor, Reumont works in Aachen from 1793. In 1804, he works on the thermal journey of Impératrice Joséphine. Then by order of Napoléon he becomes "thermal waters inspector" .

Aix was part of the French Empire until 1814, and the spa being frequented by the imperial couple, Reumont and Monheim published their study in French.

BEURTHERET, Charles.

Progrès récent dans la constitution externe des tubes de puissance: le vapotron.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1954.

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150 €

Offprint extracted of the "Bulletin de la Société française des électriciens", 7th series, Volume IV, No. 37, January 1954.
Only one another copy is known at the London British Library.

Charles Beurtheret (1909-1977) was chief engineer at the CFTH (Compagnie Française Thomson Houston, now Thalès).

[LABORATOIRE CENTRAL DE TELECOMMUNICATIONS].

Tubes à vide - Tubes à gaz.

[Paris], [Imprimerie Maulde et Renou], [1952].

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75 €

Technical booklet published by the "Laboratoire central de télécommunications".

GAUDILLAT, Louis.

Lexique officiel des lampes radio - Caractéristiques de service, culottages et classement méthodique par fonction de toutes les lampes de réception usuelles.

[Paris], Société des éditions radio, 1950.

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30 €

Ninth edition.

This booklet is a technical glossary for radio technicians of the second half of the 20th century.

ROUSSEL, Joseph.

Comment recevoir la téléphonie sans fil.

Paris, Vuibert, 1924.

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50 €

Third edition.

Book on the latest technological advances in telephony in the first half of the 20th century.

FALLET, Céline.

Conquête de l'Algérie.

Rouen, Mégard et Cie, 1857.

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40 €

Seconde edition.

PILHES, Jean-François.

Traité analytique et pratique des eaux thermales d'Ax et d'Ussat, avec la description des bains, des douches et des fontaines.

Pamiers, André Larroire, 1787.

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90 €

Rare first edition of this work of Jean-François Pilhes (1746-1832) doctor in Pamiers about analysis of thermal waters from Ax and Ussat in the french Pyrenean moutains.

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.

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae.

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.

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350 €

First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

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.

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680.

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.

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1350 €

Bound together, two rare works by Gottfried Schultz (1643-1698) based on the work of Johann Michaelis (1606-1667).

1. First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

2. First edition.
Work devoted to the preparation and use of cinnabar (mercury sulphide) in the pharmacopoeia. The author discusses the different forms of cinnabar, natural cinnabar, cinnabar of antimony, ...
It is Paracelsus who first popularizes the use of cinnabar in medicine with its antimony oil.
At the end we find an appendage devoted to magnetic plaster.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

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.

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.

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.

FULLER, Thomas.

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea sive praescriptorum chilias.

Venise, Francisci ex Nicolao Pezzana, 1790.

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150 €

Following the pharmacopoeia of Fuller will find:
- FRAUNDORFF, Tabula Smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica, Venise, Joseph Orlandelli, 1790
- Thesaurus ludovicianus sive compendium materiae med. selectum ex. B. Ludovici pharmacia, sd, sl.
- JACKSON, Enchiridion medicum practicum sive tractatus de morborum praxi, Venise, Josephum Orlandelli, 1790.

MARTIN, M.

Lettres adressées aux dames de charité de la campagne.

Auxerre, L. Fournier, 1789.

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250 €

Troisième édition.
Rare print in Auxerre of a collection of letters that sent this former apothecary of the Hotel of the royal military school to the "ladies of charity" of his diocese.
The aim was to give season after season advice on the plants to pick and the remedies that are easy to prepare for the ills of the time.

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.

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.

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PACIUS, Julius.

Enantiophanon [graece] seu legum conciliatarum centuriae decem.

This book deals with law and was written by by Giulio Pace da Beriga (1550-1635), who was a recognized professor of law and an Italian jurisconsult.

RENOU, Jean.

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

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.

CHESNEAU, Nicolas.

La Pharmacie théorique nouvellement recueillie de divers autheurs.

MYNSICHT, Adrian von.

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum.

LE GIVRE, Pierre.

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides.

[TESSARI, Ludovico].

Materia Medica Contracta.

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.

LA GARAYE, Claude Tousaint Marot, Comte de.

Chymie hydraulique, pour extraire les sels essentiels des végétaux, animaux & minéraux, par le moyen de l'eau pure.

Second edition. Interresting for the Parmentier addtions and much rarer than the first.

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

First edition in French. One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop. Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph.

Elémens de chymie théorique.

First edition. This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

BACHELET, Théodore || DEZOBRY, Charles.

Dictionnaire général des lettres, des beaux-arts et des sciences morales et politiques.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Lectures pour tous ou extraits des oeuvres générales de Lamartine.

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French poet, novelist, playwright and political figure who was envolved in the Revolution of February 1848, and proclaimed the Second Republic. He is one of the great figures of romanticism in France.

REUMONT, Gerhard || MONHEIM, Johann Peter Joseph.

Analyse des eaux sulfureuses d'Aix-La-Chapelle.

BEURTHERET, Charles.

Progrès récent dans la constitution externe des tubes de puissance: le vapotron.

[LABORATOIRE CENTRAL DE TELECOMMUNICATIONS].

Tubes à vide - Tubes à gaz.

Technical booklet published by the "Laboratoire central de télécommunications".

GAUDILLAT, Louis.

Lexique officiel des lampes radio - Caractéristiques de service, culottages et classement méthodique par fonction de toutes les lampes de réception usuelles.

Ninth edition. This booklet is a technical glossary for radio technicians of the second half of the 20th century.

ROUSSEL, Joseph.

Comment recevoir la téléphonie sans fil.

Third edition. Book on the latest technological advances in telephony in the first half of the 20th century.

FALLET, Céline.

Conquête de l'Algérie.

Seconde edition.

PILHES, Jean-François.

Traité analytique et pratique des eaux thermales d'Ax et d'Ussat, avec la description des bains, des douches et des fontaines.

Rare first edition of this work of Jean-François Pilhes (1746-1832) doctor in Pamiers about analysis of thermal waters from Ax and Ussat in the french Pyrenean moutains.

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.

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae.

First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century. Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

LOECHES, Juan.

Tyrocinium pharmaceuticum, theorico practicum, galeno-chymicum.

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

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae [Relié à la suite : ] Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680.

CATELAN, Laurent.

Discours et démonstration des ingrédiens de la Thériaque.

BARBEYRAC, Charles.

Medicamentorum constitutio seu formulae Caroli Barbeirac.

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.

SAGE, Balthazar-George.

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

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.

FULLER, Thomas.

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea sive praescriptorum chilias.

MARTIN, M.

Lettres adressées aux dames de charité de la campagne.

LOECHES, Juan.

Tyrocinium pharmaceuticum, theorico practicum, galeno-chymicum.

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

CHARAS, Moyse.

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

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.

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).
Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

First edition.
This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

Ninth edition.

This booklet is a technical glossary for radio technicians of the second half of the 20th century.

Third edition.

Book on the latest technological advances in telephony in the first half of the 20th century.

First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680.

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.

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.