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Johann Heinrich HOTTINGER

Grammatica, quatuor linguarum hebraicae, chaldaicae, syriacae et arabicae, harmonica, ita perspicue ...

Adriani Wyngaerden, Heidelberae 1659, petit in-4 (21x15cm), (6) 212pp., (9) (1bc) 102pp., 96pp., relié.

First Edition. Brunet III, 347 cites a 1661 edition of Frankfurt. Sheepskin Half middle nineteenth century, back nerves, small irons cold ett wheels on the nerves. Rubbed together. Johann Heinrich Hottinger was a highly esteemed Swiss orientalist, and his numerous works in the field have been [...]

700 €

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Simon-Nicolas-Henri LINGUET

Réflexions sur la lumière

chez Thomas Spilsbury, à Londres 1784, in-8 (19,3x12cm), 134 pp., broché.

New edition, after the original, rare, published in 1784 Paperback. Title page bearing a marginal wetting and soiling. Latch (1736-1794) writer, lawyer and French journalist, has written extensively in various fields, including law and political philosophy, his views and his talents as a polemicist [...]

250 €

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Joseph. LIEUTAUD

Essais anatomiques, contenant l'histoire exacte de toutes les parties qui composent le corps de ...

Chez Pierre Michel Huart, à Paris 1742, fort in 8 (20x12,5cm), xxi (3) 724 pp. (8 et 6 planches dépliantes)., relié.

First edition. Privilege 1741. Another edition was published on the same date at David in Paris. Full contemporary calf, spine decorated nerves and part of title in red morocco. Slight rubbing nerves. The sixth board carries a tear in the left margin does not reach the engraving. Joseph Lieutaud [...]

450 €

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Io. Angelo de CONTECILLIUS

Tractatus de differentiis et curatione febrium, ac de sanguinis missione, rei medicae studiosis ...

Apud Felicem Valgrisium, Venetiis (Venise) 1583, in- (16x11,5cm), (16) 76f., relié.

First edition. Not in Brunet or other French catalogues. Not in French National Library's Italian catalogue either.
Modern vellum, flaps. 8vo, (16) 76 ll.
A treatise on different types of fever (hectic, erratic, ?plague-like) and – what's more unusual – on the circulation of the blood. [...]

1 400 €

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Gulielmus GISCAFERIUS

Gulielmi Giscaferii medici belocarensis civis romani in romano gymnasio medicinam publicè ...

Apud Michaëlem Clopeiau, Parisii (Paris) 1581, in-8 (16x11,5cm), (11) (1bc) 255pp., relié.

Rare first edition of this treatise about fevers by an Italian doctor. Not in Brunet. Full modern Parchment.

1 200 €

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Auger FERRIER

Augeri Ferreri Tolosatis medici doctissimi de lve hispanica sive morbo gallico

apud aegidium Gillium in vico Ioan Lateran, Parisii (Paris) 1564, in-8 (16x10,4cm), 122pp. -5., relié.

First Edition rare. Absent at the BNF. Brunet II, 1236 Vignette title. Full contemporary vellum flap. Backless lace. A small marginal wetting on the front pages. Some spots. Auger Ferrier (1513-1588) of Toulouse, was both renowned astronomer, physician and physicist (he was a private physicists [...]

1 500 €

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Abrahami VATERI

Epistola gratularia ad virum vere illustrem dominum celeberrirum Fredericum Ruyschium in qua de ...

apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1727, in-4 (23,5x19cm), 23 pp. (1, une planche)., broché.

First Edition. Paperback, covered with a strong blue paper later. Abraham Vater (1684-1751), German botanist and anatomist, doctor of philosophy and medicine. He met Frederick Ruysch early. Once appointed professor of anatomy and botany, he founded an anatomical museum, which did much to his fame. [...]

280 €

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Polydorus VERGILIUS

De Rerum Inventoribus lib. VIII. Eiusdem in dominicam precem commentariolus

Apud Iacobum Boyerium, Lugduni (Lyon) 1560, fort in-16 (12,2x8cm), (24) 676pp. -34., relié.

New edition. The work was blacklisted and was republished in 1575 in redacted form and editing that we present is not so no. The first French translation seems to have appeared in 1527 as a copy of the University of Glasgow, although contradictory data gives 1528 as the date of the first French [...]

700 €

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