Live auction - Lot 1100
[Medicine - Pharmacopeia]
La pharmacopée à laquelle, outre les corrections & augmentations de toutes les précédentes éditions, sont adjoutées de nouveau, les-remarques, corrections et compositions curieuses & nécessaires aux médecins, apothicaires, chirurgiens, & autres.
Lyon, B. Rivière, 1663
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: [16]-408-294-[12] pp. (spotting and soiling throughout, some dampstaining in the corners).
Contemp. calf (corners rubbed, some sm. def. at covers), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joints splitting, sm. def. at head), red leather title label, sp. edges, marbled endpapers.
Later, augmented edition (1st 1588) of the standard pharmaceutical handbook of the French physician Brice Bauderon (1540-1623). Title printed in red & black. Text in double col.
Ref. Krivatsy 908. - Wellcome I:116. - BnF.
Prov. Stamp on half title (erased).