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

EOD network, 2011. Paperback. New. 262 pages. German language. 8.07x5.91x0.60 inches.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

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.

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:… Leer más

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… Leer más

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… Leer más

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.

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… Leer más