Fr[ançois] (de Turnai) Dubois. Des Vertus Thérapeutiques de La Belladone, Appuyées Sur des Faits Pratiques. (On the Therapeutic Value of Belladonna, Supported by Practical Facts). Gand: F. et E. Gyselynck, 1852. First edition. Inscribed with an ALS (dated 1893) by the author to a Mr. Van Melckebeke, in which the author asks.....
Samuel Hibbert. Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or, an Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1825. Second edition, enlarged. "Hibbert concluded that whatever their exciting cause, apparitions, that is illusions and hallucinations, resulted from the recall of forgotten memories which being emotionally charged attained a vividness.....
Louis Hugounenq. Traité Des Poisons: Hygiène Industrielle – Chimie Légale (Treatise on Poisons: Industrial Hygiene – Forensic Chemistry). Paris: G. Masson, 1891. First edition. Octavo. 509pp. Sparsely illustrated. Contemporary green quarter leather over marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, five raised bands, marbled endleaves. Includes chapters on Arsenic, Cyanide.....
Paracelso (Paracelsus). Botanica Oculta: Las Plantas Mágicas (Occult Botany: Magical Plants). Puebla, Mexico: Medina, Hnos., [No date, circa 1920]. Reprint edition. Mexican reprint of this catalogue of “magical” and “occult” (i.e. medicinal) plants, by Paracelsus. Octavo. 173pp. Publisher’s illustrated card wraps, most pages remain unopened. Includes a small dictionary of occult botany.....