Live auction - Lot 1240
[Pharmacology]
Pharmacopoea Gandavensis nobilissimi senatu jussu renovata.
Ghent, J. Begyn, 1786
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
4to: [10]-466-[1] pp. (last pp. loose, tear in upper inner corner kkk3 and kkk4, browning and spotting throughout).
Contemp. binding (damaged, some parts not so expertly repaired). Sold w.a.f.
Very rare. The last Ghent pharmacopoeia to be written and at the same time the last one published in the southernmost part of the Low Countries (Daems & Vande Wiele). Text in Latin, names of the Materia Medica translated in Dutch. Woodcut on title.
Ref. Daems & Vande Wiele, pp. 107-108. - Blake 348. - STCV.
Prov. "L. Louis, pharmacien, Aalst" (ms. ownership entry on inner cover).