405 / 444
355
bands, [32]-496-[19-1 bl.] pp. (some minor spotting). Good copy. Uncommon 2nd ed. (1st 1713) by
the Leiden professor Boerhaave (1668-1768) of a treatise by the French physician Charles Le Pois
(1563-1633).
Ref.
Blake 265. Wellcome III 494. BMN I 186. STCN (1). (2 vol.)
1487
[Pharmacopoeia - Paris]
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Formules de médicamens usitées dans les différens hopitaux de
Paris.
[Rev. ed.]. Paris, P.Fr. Didot Jr, 1780, 12mo, cont. marbl. calf, elaborately gilt spine, marbl.
endpapers, xij-499-[5] pp. (small tear in top blank margin of a1-2). Good copy.
€ 200/300
Later edition of this survey of pharmaceutical customs in Paris hospitals. Chapters on e.g. infusions,
injections, pills, powders etc., as well as on “vins medicamenteux”. Latin text on verso with facing
French trsl.
Ref.
Blake, p. 151. Bn-Opale plus. Not in BL London.
1488
[Pharmacopoeia]
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LEMERY, Nicolas
- Pharmacopée universelle, contenant toutes les
compositions de pharmacie qui sont en usage dans la médecine, tant en France que par toute
l’Europe (...). Seconde édition. Paris, Laurent d’Houry, 1716, 4to, cont. calf (sl. soiled, corners
bumped), gilt orn. spine (rubbed, sl. repaired; lower margins sl. dampstained, minor spotting). Good
copy.
€ 80/120
2nd edition of this famous pharmacopoeia by N. Lemery (1645-1715). Title in red & black. Blind
stamp Menière pharmacien de 1ère classe Angers.
Ref.
Blake 264. Bn-Opale plus (2). Not in BL
London.
1489
[Surgery]
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LA ROCHE, Daniel de, PETIT-RADEL, Philippe, ed.
- Encyclopédie méthodique.
Chirurgie. Paris, Panckoucke (- H. Agasse), 1790- An VII [1799], 3 vol., 4to, cont. marb. sheep
(rubbed, corners bumped), gilt flat spines (some wormholes), red edges, [4]-44-712, [4]-566-[2 bl.]-
144 pp., [4] pp., 111 pl. (1st vol.: somewhat dampstaining and spotting, lower corner of p. 1 sl. torn
but without loss of text, some other sm. def., margins of pl. somewhat dampstaining).
€ 300/400
Revised and much expanded version of the orig. alphabetically arranged “Encyclopédie” by
Diderot and D’Alembert. Part on surgery, ed. by D. de La Roche (1743-1812) and P. Petit-Radel
(1749-1815). 2 text vol. and 1 atlas with
111 numb. unsigned pls
(3 double-page, pl. 13 & 52 not
present (as usual?), + XVbis) depicting surgical instruments. Explanation of the pl. in 2nd vol.
Ref.
Blake 113 & 135. Wellcome II 444 & 523. BnF. COPAC. *** See also lot 1493
~ Large collection of medical texts by the most important 18th c. French physicians ~
1490
[Surgery]
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Mémoires de l’Académie royale de chirurgie
. Paris, Charles Osmont (- P.A. Le
Prieur, - wid. Delaguette, P.-F. Didot the younger), 1743-1774, 5 vol., 4to, cont. gilt ruled marb.
calf, gilt orn. red leather spines on 5 raised bands, gilt sides, gilt inner dentelles, pink endpapers,
a.e.g., xl-778-[3-3 bl.], [4]-xcvii-[7]-612, [4]-139-[5]-680-[2-2 bl.], [4]-123-[1]-699-[1 bl.], [4]-xvl-
928 pp. (minor spotting, title 3rd vol. loose, 1 pl. in 5th vol. browned). Nice set with large margins.
€ 1500/2000
1st ed.
of this collection of historical notes and num. memoirs, observations and experimentations
by the best surgeons of that era: Fr. Quesnay, Fr. de La Peyronie (cofounder of the Academy), Petit,
H.-Fr. Le Dran, Croissant de Garengeot etc. The Academy was founded in 1731 on the initiative of
Georges Mareschal, first surgeon of Louis XV and was dissolved in 1793 as a result of the French
Revolution.
Engr. ills
: 1 frontisp. by C.N. Cochin, 5 title-vign. (some by E. De Ghendt after Ch.
Eisen), 9 headpcs (some by P. Aveline or J. Guélard after A. Humblot),
89 pl.
(20, 22, 19, 9, 19;
of which 43 full-page) outside text by
Simonneau
,
Therese Martinet
after Ingram or
C. Monet
depicting anatomical figures and surgical instruments approved by the Academy. Including a list
of the members of the Royal Academy. In a nice prize binding, titled on spine “Prix de l’Ecole