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Pharmacopee Royal Galenique et Chymique… by Charas, Moyse - 1693.

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by Charas, Moyse

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2 volumes in one, early leather and boards, spine label, illustrated with five engraved plates, [12], 448; [12], 430, [36], [five plates] pp. Binding worn and scuffed, and top hinge is cracked and weak, a few chips at the spine and extremities, old worm hole affecting last several leaves, including plates, but not overly significant, notations on rear endpaper, foxing and aging throughout; despite its flaws a decent copy. A rather scarce copy of this edition (OCLC locates 14 copies). Charas (1619-1698) was the famous French apothecary who achieved his fame during the reign of Louis XIV. The Pharmacopee was his most famous work, which was first published in 1676. However, he was also well known for his expertise on poisons, opium, and antidotes. This edition includes five pages of illustrations of instruments used by apothecaries.
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  • Publisher Anisson & Posuel,
  • Place of Publication Lyon:
  • Date Published 1693.
  • Keywords Medicine. Parmacopia.
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Von der Viper, ihrem Gift, und den Arzneien daraus

by Charas, Moyse

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EOD network, 2011. Paperback. New. 262 pages. German language. 8.07x5.91x0.60 inches.
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Pharmacopee Royale Galenique Et Chymique...

by Moyse Charas

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101877291x
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Pharmacopée Royale Galénique Et Chymique...

by Moyse Charas

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1018767800
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by Moyse Charas

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

by CHARAS, MOYSE

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1668. Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1668. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, small hole to leather on lower compartment of spine. Title-page with underlignings in red and frontispiece partly detached, otherwise internally fine. (26), 310, (9) pp. First edition of Charas’ pharmacopeia specifically dedicated to Theriac of Andromachus – one of the oldest and most complicated medical concoction, containing 65 ingredients, dating as far back as 120 BC.
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Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition
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Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition

by Charas Moyse

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Paris: Anisson & Posuel, 1717. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather respined and edged in modern leather, old bookplates on the added endpaper. Lovely engraved title and 5 plates. Light dampstain to foredge, plates a bit soiled at edges, a few small wormholes at rear. Explication des plus communs caracteres chymiques pasted to rear blank. Old catalog entry pasted to rear added endpaper. Very good overall. (6), 884, index. 5 plates and explication table bound at rear. An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry. Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size:… Read More
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Historia naturalis Theriacae Andromachi, oder Beschreibung der Thiere, Pflanzen und Mineralien,...

Historia naturalis Theriacae Andromachi, oder Beschreibung der Thiere, Pflanzen und Mineralien, welche zu der Composition des Theriacks, von Andromacho beschrieben, genommen werden.

by Charas, Moyse

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Frankfurt am Main: Johann Beyers Erben, 1679. softcover. Gut. Kl.-8vo. (ca. 16 x 10 cm). Moderner Buntpapier-Umschlag, 224 S., 3 Bll., 1 Bl. (w). Ferguson I, 152. Erste dt. Ausgabe. Vgl. Caillet 2200, Ferchl 92 und Neu 880 (franz. Ausgaben). - Seltene deutsche Übersetzung von Charas' Abhandlung über das seit der Antike bekannte Heilmittel Theriak, die zuerst 1668 unter dem Titel "Histoire naturelle des animaux, des plantes, & des minéraux qui entrent dans la composition de la Thériaque..." erschien. - Der französische Apotheker und Arzt Charas (1619-1698) beschäftigte sich während seiner Laufbahn in Orange und Paris intensiv mit dem Theriak und durfte das behördlich streng kontrollierte Herstellungsverfahren in seiner Apotheke durchführen. Im vorliegenden Werk macht er allerdings auch Vorschläge zur Verbesserung der Rezeptur und setzt sich kontrovers mit der damals aus Giftschlangen (Vipern) gewonnenen Zutat auseinander. Die… Read More
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Nouvelles Experiences sur La Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties,...
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Nouvelles Experiences sur La Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties, la source de son venin, ses divers effets, et les remedes exquis .....

by Moyse Charas

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Paris: L'Auteur, au Faux-bourg Saint Germain et Olivier de Varennes, 1669 A very good copy of the scarce 1st edition. Moyse Charas (1619-1698) was an apothecary, famous for his pharmaceutical work. He was expert in poisons and their antidotes and this study on vipers and venom was ground-breaking and popular at the time. This copy is in contemporary calf boards with a new calf spine with gilt lined raised bands, blind stamped designs and red title label. It has had expert leather repair to corners and so is in very good condition. Page edges speckled. There is the armorial bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Eserick to the front pastdown. Beilby Thompson (1742-1799) was a prominent landowner and politician. Contents complete with decorative title; title dated 1669; epistre 4pp; Preface 6pp; text pp 1-200 with 3 double page plates; Echiosophium pp 201-218; table 4pp; Privelege du Roy with errata at the end 2pp. Text with decorative initial capitals and head and tailpieces. Contents are in very good clean… Read More
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New Experiments upon Vipers. With exquisite remedies, that may be drawn from them, as well for...
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London: Printed for J. Martyn, Printer to the R. Society, 1673. Small 8vo (155 x 110 mm), [16], 223, [1], 112pp., without the final errata leaf, with the additional engraved title (blank upper outer corner torn away), imprint to printed title slightly cropped, some light marginal dampstaining and age toning to first few leaves, 3 folding engraved plates all clean, nineteenth-century half calf, spine lettered direct. A translation from the French of Moyse Charas's Nouvelles Expériences sur la Vipère (1169), in which he describing the anatomy, physiology, and habits of viper. He also regards snakes as important for the treatment of itch, erysipelas, measles, smallpox, leprosy and for skin care. His belief was that snake saliva only became venomous when the snake became agitated, opposing Francesco Redi's view that venom was constant and produced from glands behind the fangs. Wing, C2038; Wellcome II, p. 327.
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Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses...
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Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties, la source de son venin ses divers effets, et les remedes exquis (the rare first edition, first issue)

by Charas, Moyse

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Paris: L'auteur et Olivier de Varennes, 1669. First edition, first issue.. Mild damp stain to the rear attached endpaper and to the rear outer corner of the last few pages of the text, a bright and clean copy in near fine condition in a very attractive binding.. Pp. illustrated frontis leaf (1), title leaf (1), dedication & epistre (4), preface (6), 1-200, fin (with 3 double plates and 1 illustrated frontis plate), 201-218 (echiosophium), table des titres (4), privilege du rot (2).  Early acid-etched brown calf, spine rebacked with original calf laid on, sm 8vo.  This classic work began the debate with Italian physician Francesco Redi on the mechanism of viper envenomation.  In this volume, Charas disputed Redi's view that the injection of venom under the skin was the cause of death in snake bite.  Charas thought the viper's venom was harmless and that the true cause of death was by spirits driven into the mind of the victim by an enraged viper.  Redi's… Read More
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