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Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum): entire young plant. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.

De plantis Aegypti liber. In qvo non pavci, qvi circa herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quorum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad vsum medicine admodum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt ... / Accessit etiam liber de balsamo, aliàs editus. Prosperi Alpini.

On the manufacture of Balsam of Peru / by Daniel Hanbury.

Histoire naturelle de l'Égypte, 1581-1584 / par Prosper Alpin [sic] ; traduit du latin, et présenté par R. de Fenoyl ; annotation de R. de Fenoyl et S. Sauneron ; index de Marcelle Desdames.

Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

On the myrospermum of sonsonate, from which the so-called balsam of Peru, white balsam and balsamito, are obtained / by Jonathan Pereira.

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On the manufacture of Balsam of Peru / by Daniel Hanbury.

Histoire naturelle de l'Égypte, 1581-1584 / par Prosper Alpin [sic] ; traduit du latin, et présenté par R. de Fenoyl ; annotation de R. de Fenoyl et S. Sauneron ; index de Marcelle Desdames.

Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum): entire young plant. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.

Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

On the myrospermum of sonsonate, from which the so-called balsam of Peru, white balsam and balsamito, are obtained / by Jonathan Pereira.