SCIENCES - Set of 5 books. - Lot 30

SCIENCES - Set of 5 books. - Raoul du MONTVERD. Sensuyt les fleurs et secretz de médecine, lequel traicte de plusieurs remèdes, receptes et conservatoires pour le corps humain contre toutes maladies... Paris (?)], circa 1540 (?). Small in-8, 10 x 14 cm, 6 ff. (of 8), LXIII ff. (of LXXII), soft contemporary ivory vellum binding. Gothic printing. Missing title, second leaf and text leaves I, VIII, XXV, XXXII, XLIV, LVII, LXIV, LXV and LXXII. - Henri de PICIS]. Opus geomantiae completum in libros tres divisum. Quorum primus universam geomanticam theoriam, secundus praxim, tertius varias à diversis authoribus decerptas quoestiones contines. Lyon, Bartholomé Vincent, February 18, 1627. In-8, 11 x 17.5 cm, 8 ff. 378 pp. 1 f. 6 (of 7) folded plates, soft contemporary ivory vellum binding. Scientific essays by a doctor from Lyon. Illustrated with geometrical woodcuts on 6 plates and in the text. Copper-engraved plate missing, and paper missing from the margin of plate 2, with damage to the illustration. Mottling, corners dog-eared. Small crack to one spine. - Marcus GERBEZIUS. Chronologia medico-practica, exactam temporum, aurae, tempestatum & humanorum corpora inde orta rum alterationum descriptionem cum suis histories medicis, causis & curationibus potassium ad modernorum mentem adumbratam continens, in quinque annos distincta. Huic annexum est ejusden autoris intricatum extricatum medicum seu tractatus de morbis complicatis... Frankfurt am Main, Johann Bauer, 1713. In-4, 15 x 20 cm, 7 ff. (of 8), 206 pp. 3 ff. in contemporary tan basane binding, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs. First edition of this treatise on practical medicine, which studies the influence of atmospheric phenomena (seasons, winds, bad weather) on the human body. Gerbezius (1658-1719) was a renowned physicist and scientist from Ljubljana. Missing engraved portrait of the author. Browned leaves. One quire inverted. Binding slightly rubbed, corners dulled. - Johann George OEDERER & Carl Gottlieb WAGLER. Tractatus de morbo mucoso... Göttingen, Victorin Bossiegel, [1762]. In-4, 18 x 22 cm, 4 ff, 212 pp, 3 folded plates, paperback, untrimmed. First edition of this treatise on typhoid, confused by the authors with dysentery. Notebook Z (pp. 177-184) is missing. - Vincent Jean Paul BIRON. De partubus praecocibus... Montpellier, Jean-François Picot, 1780. In-4, 20 pp. unbound. First edition. Thesis on premature births. Experts: Cédric de FOUGEROLLE and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE, 01 45 63 04 04 - experts@fougerolle-livres.com