Ordonnantie van heer ende weth der stad Gend, op den taux der droguen en medicamenten, raekende de pharmacie van de apothecarissen der voorzeyde stad.

4to: [4]-44-[4] pp. (some min. spotting, old folds in last 2 ff.).

Mod. marbl. boards. Good copy.

Rare official Ghent publication listing the newly imposed prices of drugs and their ingredients, decreed 1 March 1787 and published the day after. This publ. is sometimes found bound after the "Pharmacopoea Gandavensis" (1786), the very last city pharmacopoeia in the Southern Netherlands. All the names of the plants and their substances are in Latin. Copy complete with the very rare "Taxa Laborum", a first attempt to establish a fixed financial renumeration for certain pharmaceutical procedures. Woodcut arms of the city of Ghent "SPQG" on title. Ref. Bibl. gant. IV:5438-5439. - Daems/Vandewiele pp. 107-108. - Blake 174. - Wellcome IV:361. - STCV (2, in Ghent & Oudenaarde). - Anet (1). - Opac KBR.