Two rare works in one volume: (1) Rhyne, W. ten. Verhandelinge van de Asiatise melaatsheid,

na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen. Amst., A. van Someren, 1687, (18),181 p., cont. vellum. Bookblock sl. loose, library ticket on spine, minor other internal and external imperfections. Bound with: (2) Beintema van Peima, Joannes Ignatius Worp. Tabacologia, ofte korte verhandelenge over de tabak, desselvs deugd, gebruyk, ende kennisse: waar door aangeweesen wordt een wegh om lang, vroolijk, ende gesond te leeven. The Hague, L. van Dijck, 1690, (12),175 p. Lacks frontisp. and a blank preliminary leaf.

(1) Very rare first edition of Ten Rhyne's pioneer early treatise on leprosy. Bowers, Western Medical Pioneers in Feudal Japan, (1971), p. 31. Broes van Dort, Historische studie over lepra (1898), p. 1-21. Landwehr and V.d. Krogt, VOC 834. The Dutch doctor and botanist Willem ten Rhyne (ca. 1647-1700), employed by the Dutch East India Company, arrived in Japan in 1673-1674. He was the first physician with a full university education in medicine to come to Deshima, and as such the first to describe the medicine and culture of Japan to the West. He introduced acupuncture and moxibustion to Europe (Dissertatio de Arthritide, London 1683), wrote the first detailed study of tea and an early account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Khoikhoi (Hottentots). In his treatise on the "Asiatische melaatsheid", he discusses various types of leprosy, their mutual differences, their signs and symptoms, the causes of the illness, precautionary measures and approach after infection. Ten Rhyne also quotes earlier writings on leprosy and deals with recuperation. After his stay in Japan, Ten Rhyne returned to Java, passing the rest of his life immersed in botanical and medical studies. (2) First edition of a treatise on tobacco, discussing its virtues, uses and characteristics, by Johannes Ignatius Worp Beintema van Peima (1666-1714), professor of medicine. Beintema van Peima remarks that proper use of tobacco (one of God's herbs) may result in a long, gay and healthy life, inducing tranquility of mind during lonely or unhappy moods. His reasons for his treatise were sympathy for unhappy people and a desire to alleviate distress. He also notes that he will be probably be censured for advising women to smoke. From the collection of Georg A. Brongers, curator of the Niemeyer Nederlands Tabacologisch Museum and author of Nicotiana tabacum: The History of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoking in the Netherlands, with his owner's entry in pen on upper pastedown.