1727 PHARMACOPEIA ILLUSTRATED Dictionary or Treatise on Simple Drugs antique

Lémery, Nicolas

Dictionaire ou traité universel des drogues simples.
 Où l on trouve leurs differens noms, leur origine … & tout ce qu il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les vegetaux, & dans les mineraux. Ouvrage dépendant de la pharmacopée universelle. Quatrième édition. Revue, corrigé, & beaucoup augmentée par l auteur.
Quatriéme Edition

Rotterdam: Jean Hofhout, 1727

"The Dictionary or Universal Treatise on Simple Drugs" is a reference work on medical and pharmaceutical medicine written by the French chemist and apothecary Nicolas Lémery .

First published in 1698, it provides an exhaustive and alphabetical inventory of all the natural substances (vegetable, animal and mineral) used in the pharmacopoeia of the time

25 folding engraved plates, each with 16 figures of various plants and animals


-Wellcome III, page 488-

4to, size 8 by 10.5"

Original speckled calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments; perforated library stamp on title

Marbled pastedowns, lacks endpapers

Minor toning, generally sound otherwise.

Text in French
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