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LAMBSPRINCK
De lapide philosophico e Germanico versu Latine redditus, per
Nicolaum Barnaudum.
Frankfurt: sumptibus Lucae Jennis I., 1625.
4to: A–D4 E2 , 18 leaves, pp. 35 [1] (last page blank). 16 emblematic
engravings (14 x 15mm), the Wrst on the titlepage, and an engraved
coat of arms on A2r.
186 x 147mm. Titlepage dustsoiled, otherwise a clean copy with strong
impressions of the plates.
Binding: Recent quarter calf.
Provenance: Walter Pagel’s signature dated 1951 on free endleaf.
First edition, the last part only of Musaeum hermeticum (1625), a second,
enlarged edition of which was printed in 1678 and again in 1749; an
English translation appeared in 1893. See Caillet 7890, Duveen p. 418.
A series of Wnely engraved emblems on the philospher’s stone. This is the
last of the 9 alchemical treatises published as Musaeum hermeticum. The Wrst
8 tracts of the Museum have continuous pagination and register, only the
Lambsprinck is separately paginated, and it has a full titlepage with imprint
so may have been issued separately as well as in the Musaeum.
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LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766–1842)
Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes.
Paris: chez J. Smith... et chez F. Buisson... de l’imprimerie de J. H. Stône
[vol. IV:] chez J. Smith... et Gide, 1812–17.
4 volumes 8vo, pp. [iii–xxviii] 382; [2] 512 (cancels 347/8, 425/6); [2]
499 (pp. 273/4 omitted from the pagination, cancel 235/6); [2] 500
(pp. 479–480 omitted, cancel 3/4). Lacking the half­titles.
17 engraved plates, numbered I–XI, 1–6, pl. 2 signed ‘Dr. Sarlandière
del. Plée sc.’ (plates 1 and 2 folding).
[bound uniformly with:]
Recueil de mémoires de chirurgie.
Paris: chez compère Jeune, 1821.
8vo, pp. [iii]–xvi 319 [1]; 3 leaves of explanation of the plates printed
on rectos only; [1] errata (verso blank); [1] advertisement. Lacking the
half title.
4 engraved plates, numbered 1–4, signed ‘D. A. Duponchel del.’, the
last printed in colours.
195 x 1200mm. Some light foxing, light waterstain in vol. 3, clean tears
in two leaves in vol. 1 repaired; rust hole in pp. 31/2 in the Recueil.
Binding: Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Rubbed.