W. S. Cotter Rare Books

BERTRAND, C. F.

Le parfumeur impérial, Ou l'Art de préparer les Odeurs, Essences, Parfums, Aromates, Eaux de senteur, Poudres, Pommades, Huiles, Pâtes, Lait virginal, Cosmétiques, Vinaigres de propreté, Savons et Savonnettes, Pastilles odorantes, Fumigations, Bains aromatiques, Gants parfumés, Rouge de toutes qualités, ainsi que la recette la plus moderne pour la composition de l'Eau de Cologne; SUIVI D'un index alphabétique des substances propres à la Parfumerie; Par C. F. BERTRAND, Parfumeur et Distillateur. A PARIS, Chez BRUNOT-LABBE, Libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 33. 1809.

Paris: Brunot-Labbe, 1809.
A very good, uncut and partially unopened copy of C. F. Bertrand’s vade mecum and analytical study of perfume and cosmetics, modeled after earlier manuals. According to perfume historian Edwin T. Morris, “The year 1809 saw the publication of Le Parfumeur Impérial by C. F. Bertrand. There.....

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COCLES, Bartolommeo della Rocca

In disem biechlin wirt erfunden von complexion der menschen. Zů erlernen leypliche vnd menschliche natur ir sittẽ geberdẽ vñ neyglicheit zů erkẽnen vñ vrteylen. [Colophon, C4r]: Getruckt vnnd volendet in der loblichẽ statt Straßburg durch Johannẽ Knobloch. Als man zalt nach d geburt Christi vnfers herrẽ Tausent Fünffhundert vñ sechtzehẽ Jare. [Straßburg: Knobloch, 1516.]

Strasbourg: Joannes Knobloch, 1516.
Popular German-language epitome of Bolognese astrologer and chiromancer Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles's Chiromantie ac physionomie anastasis. Cocles discusses, in 23 short chapters, the fundamentals of physiognomy: the nature of the four principal "complexions" (humors), and how to determine the character of a person by not just.....

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[IRROÉ, Charles; MONIER, Baron de Taillades]

L'IRROÉ OU LE PURGATIF RAFRAICHISSANT.

Limoges? 1778.
One of several editions of a long list of testimonials, letters, certificats, and even hearsay attesting to the virtues of the so-called poudre d'Irroé, a purgative and laxative preparation invented by Monier, Baron de Taillades, an Avignon physician, with the assistance of Charles Irroé, a Catholic priest with.....

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KETHAM, Johannes de

[Fasciculus medicinae] EPILOGO EN MEDICINA Y CIRUGIA CONBENIENTE ALA SALUD. [Colophon, k4v]: Fue acabada la presente obra por juan de burgos en la muy noble: [et] mas leal cibdad de burgos a . x v . dias del mes de mayo año de mill . [et] quatrocientos: [et] noventa: cinco años. [Burgos: Juan de Burgos, 15 May 1495]

Burgos: Juan de Burgos, 1495.
Only Juan de Burgos edition, and second (of three) incunabular Spanish editions of the collection of variable medical texts known as the Fasciculus medicinae ("little bundle of medicine"), traditionally attributed to Johannes de Ketham. Karl Sudhoff postulated in the 1920s that Ketham was in fact.....

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MISSA, Henri-Michel; MARTIN, M.

Prospectus. Maniere de guérir les Maladies Vénériennes, par l'usage d'un Chocolat antivénérien aussi utile qu'agréable.

Paris: Jean-Augustin Grangé, 1775.
The present single-sheet advertisement promotes a chocolate bonbon supposedly laced with antivenereal drugs, an invention of the largely forgotten Paris apothecary Mr. Martin. The advertisement (and, by extension, the product), was approved by the somewhat less obscure Henri-Michel Missa, royal censor and doctor of the Faculty.....

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PORZIO, Simone

Disputa dello eccellentissimo filosofo M. Simone Portio Napoletano, sopra quella Fanciulla della Magna, laquale visse due anni ò piu senza mangiare, & ſenza bere. Tradotta, in Lingua Fiorentina da Giouambatista Gelli. Con Priuilegio in Firenze.

Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....

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WALLBERG, Johann

Compendieuses natürliches Zauber-Buch, Oder Aufrichtige Entdeckung, Vieler der allerbewährtesten, nicht nur Belustigend- sondern auch Nutzen- und Gewinn- einbringender Geheimnüsse, Insbesondere denen Wein- Negotianten dienende, Samt mit eingebrachten kurtzen Discoursen Von der Goldmacherey, Zauberey, Macht und Wirkung der guten und bösen Geister in die Cörper von Gespenstern, und Benebst Einem Anhang, Der untrüglichsten, theils medicinisch, theils sympathetisch- und antipathetischer Geheimnüsse. Durch J. Wallbergen, P. C. Franckfurt and Leipzig 1745.

Frankfurt and Leipzing: 1745.
First edition of the Compendieuses natürliches Zauber-Buch (Compendium of Natural Magic), the Swabian pharmacist, brewer, and amateur magician Johann Wallberg's composite text on conjuring and the household arts, a work immediately conspicuous by its peculiar two-page, two-color title. The first part of the text is a......

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WINTER von ANDERNACH, Johann

Instruction tresutile, par laquelle un chacun se pourra maintenir en sante, tant au temps de peste, comme en autre temps, par | Maistre Iehan Guinter d'Andernach Docteur de Paris en Medicine. Imprime a Argentine au Pelican, L'an 1547. Avec privilege.

Strasbourg: Remy Guedon, 1547.
In 1542, by order of the Strasbourg City Council, Johann Winter von Andernach, physician to François Ier and professor of anatomy at the Faculté de Medecine de Paris, composed his De victus ed medicinae ratione cum alio tum pestilentiae tempore observanda commentarius, a compact work on.....

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