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1755JC4CQCORXW8DMons: Henri Bottin 1755. Contemporary calf richly gold-tooled spine red edges. 4to. Rare first and only edition of the Mons pharmacopoeia. Although the Vienna pharmacopoeia had been officially designated as the standard for the Austrian Netherlands the city of Mons published its own pharmacopoeia in 1755 making it the last city in the Low Countries to create a new pharmacopoeia.With early owner's inscriptions. Title-page detached but otherwise in very good condition. Binding worn at the spine and extremities and spine-label lost.l Anet 1 copy; Daems & Vandewiele pp. 65-66 3 copies; Wellcome IV p. 368; WorldCat 2 copies; not in Blake. Henri Bottin, unknown
1800I14DVA32F2X0Leiden: Abraham and Jan Honkoop 1800. Contemporary mottled boards. 12mo. Rare second edition of "the first general as distinguished from hospital 'pharmacopoeia' compiled by an American" Cowen first published at Paris in 1798. The first part of the book is a classification of diseases and is taken word for word from the influential 1769 nosology by the Scottish physician William Cullen. The second part is a pharmacopoeia divided into materia medica and composite medicines. The introduction notes that it is based on the author's notes made at the University of Edinburgh the London pharmacopoeia and Joseph Townsend's The physicians' vade mecum 1794 p. x. Between the two parts can be found a list translating the Latin names of the chemical preparations "which not all readers will view as sufficiently legitimate" p. 77 into the modern English and French nomenclature.William Tazewell d. 1832 was an American physician who had studied in Edinburgh and in 1797-1800 was secretary to Elbridge Gerry in Paris. After returning to the United States Tazewell set up a medical practice in Williamsburg and later moved to Virginia. In 1803 he presented copies of his Vade-mecum to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson the latter writing that "it has really brought the whole science of diseases & remedies within the shortest compass possible and not meddling with the details of the science himself it presents exactly such a general view of every part of it as Jefferson often wishes to take" Cowen.With a small price in pen on the first flyleaf. Only some thumbing on the last 30 pages otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. Boards slightly worn and spine cracked but still structurally sound.l Cowen America's pre-pharmacopoeial literature pp. 21-22; STCN 1 copy; Founders online letters to Tazewell from Washington and Jefferson; Wellcome V p. 241; WorldCat 2 copies. Abraham and Jan Honkoop, hardcover
1711I17ERD520PLVLisbon 1711. Small folio 29 x 21 cm. Monastery of São Vicente de Fóra Modern sheepskin gold-tooled spine red morocco title-label. With engraved arms as fronstipiece and a title-page printed in red and black. 28 494 29 1 blank pp. Rare second edition of the first Portuguese pharmacopoeia first published in 1704 by the friar D. Caetano de Santo António d. 1730 an apothecary of the Monastery of Santa Cruz of the city of Coimbra who upon publication of the second volume was working at Lisbon in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora. "The Pharmacopeia Lusitana shows how important the convent pharmacy was at that time in Portugal. The Portuguese religious apothecaries were very knowledgeable on pharmaceutical matters" Pita. With a few manuscript annotations in the margins. Ca. 50 leaves with a waterstain at the head of the gutter margin an occasional smudge and two leaves with a small hole and small tears otherwise in very good condition.l J.R. Pita Brief history of Portuguese pharmacopoeias pp. 1-5; Porbase 1 copy; Wellcome IV p. 369 incomplete; WorldCat 5 copies. unknown
1720AUB-5887LIPSIAE, sumptibus J.O. FRIDERICI GLEDITSCHII B. FILII. Anno MDCCXX. Bel exemplaire relié, reliure d'origine plein parchemin, 29x23, page de titre, portrait gravé en pleine page, hommage, préface, 64 pages + 1028 pages + 792 pages + index omnium titulorum .
177751944Wien (bzw. Leipzig), Voigt; Trattner bzw. Eisfeld, 1704-1777. Fol. Blindgepr. Schweinsldr.-Bd. d. Zt. a. 5 Bünden m. goldgepr. bischöflichem Wappensupralibros mit den Initialen ?E.P.P.C.?, goldgepr. Rückenschildern, dreiseitigem Farbschnitt u. einer (statt 2) Schließe (Bde. 1 u. 2 in einem Band) bzw. Pgmt.-Bde. d. Zt. m. goldgepr. Rückenschild (Bde. 3-6).