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Manuscript description of inner Algeria 1841-1844
Ménon (1820-?).
Les montagnes de Dj'erf-el-Achard ou la vie d'un jeune soldat en Afrique. Détails sur différentes villes de France et distance d'un endroit à l'autre, le nom des différents bivouacs. Les différentes embarcation et distance.
Algeria, 1841-1844.
12°. 181 pp. With a paper sheet attached to front pastedown.
With pencil drawings depicting plans of a fort on recto of endpaper and a three-master ship on verso. Title-page illustrated in pencil with cacti and palm trees. Also with a gouache and pencil drawing of two Algerian armed men called "zouave" and "indigene" on paper pasted on back pastedown.
Sewn over vellum spine with cardboard sides, the front bearing the number 58.
Long, detailed and illustrated handwritten diary of a French soldier in Algeria, kept from March 22, 1841 until August 15, 1844. The author states on the first page that he was born on July 24, 1820 in the small French village of Gène and his name is Ménon. He does… Read More

Introducing drugs from around the world
João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719).
Polyanthea medicinal. Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […].
Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727.
Folio in 6s. [60], 312, 317-879, [1 blank], 32, [4], 11, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. = complete with the advertisement leaf at the end and the 3 plates: an engraved frontispiece showing the Portuguese Royal coat-of-arms by J. Gomez, 1727; a full-page engraved portrait of the Archbishop of Lisbon Luís de Sousa by Claude Duflos, 1701; and an engraved portrait of the author João Curvo Semedo also by J. Gomez, 1727.
Contemporary sheep with gold-tooled spine and raised bands.
An important pioneering Portuguese guide to medicine from around the world. This rare fourth edition is of particular interest because it includes the list of drugs from other continents: Memorial de varios simplices que da India Oriental, da America. & de outras partes do mundo vem… Read More