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Groningen,: G.J. Reits,, 1875.. 16 pp. 8vo (13 x 20 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With one large (41 x 34,5 cm.) and fine lithographed plate by D. Boots (Groningen). ¶ A very good copy in which the author describes his cattle delivery instruments that was crowned with silver in 1872 athe the "Landhuishoudkundig Congres te Utrecht". Very rare, only 4 copies in the WorldCat.

Solingen,: E. Krauskopf,, (n.d., ca. 1935).. 148 pp. 4to (21 x 30 cm.). Original printed limp boards (discoloured, sligthly soiled, spine worn). Richly illustrated with over 1000 engravings of dental instruments and appliances. Krauskopf was the leading German manufacturer of dental instruments. Text in German, English, French and Spanish.

Tokyo,, 1911.. 115 pp. 8vo. With numerous illustrations. -- This is a Xerox copy. ¶ A History of Japanese Medicine from the earliest times to 1911; this work shows the influence of the Chinese medicine upon the development of Japanese medicine, and the later effects of Portugese and Dutch contacts with Japan.

Tübingen,: Franz Pietzcker,, 1897.. [iv], 73, [i] pp. Small 8vo. Original cloth (slightly worn). Hirsch VI, 115.--(Paper somewhat browned).

(Halle, 1705) reprint Zürich,, 1985.. (18), 544, (64) pp. With: D. & C.W. SAMUEL. Das Madai-Maual. Eine handschriftliche Rezeptsammlung zwischen 1740 und 1840. (Facsimile, Zürich, 1985). 300 pp. With: H.J. Poeckern. Die Hallischen Waisenhaus-Arzeneyen. Kommentar, Glossar und Transkription. Z:urich, 1985. 254 pp. Together 3 vols. Sm. 8vo. Orig. boards preserved in a slip-case. In 1695. A.H. Francke founded the Hallische Waisenhaus which became instantly famous. Their secret tincture Essentia dulcis was one of the most desired medicines of 18th century Germany. The Madai manuscript, which was kept in secret for 200 years, throws light on on the ingredients and composition of the Geheimmittel and several Wundermedizinen.

Jena,: Gustav Fischer,, 1937.. iv, [iv], 224 pp. 8vo. (17 x 25 cm.). Half blue cloth (original printed wrappers bound in), spine gilt lettered. ¶ An oustanding work. Copy from the library of Prof. Frans A. Sondervorst, but with the bookplate of August van Schevensteen. Pasted in the front of the binding: A review Mayerhofer's work by A. Schevensteen (Revue belge de Philologie, t. XVIII [1939], No. 1), 2 pp. and an In Memoriam of Mayrhofer by Paul Diepgen (Offprint from Münchener Med. Wochenschrift 1938, Nr. 45). 4 pp. With a portrait of Mayrhofer.