Shelfmark
Ga.4.09
Author
Uniform title
[Histoire générale des drogues. English]
Title
A compleat history of druggs, : written in French by Monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the present French King; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts: illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts curiously done from the life; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth, and countries from whence they are brought; the way to know the true from the false, their virtues, &c. A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals. Vol. I. [-II.].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe, Matthew Wotton, S. Manship, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Rich. Parker, and Ralph Smith., 1712.
Physical description
2 v. in 1 ([16], 224; [20], 225-419, [13] p., 85 leaves of plates) : ill. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Note
Marginal notes.
Note
Vol. 2 has a final leaf of bookseller's advertisements.
Note
Index to both vols. at end of vol. 2.
Note
Main body of text printed in double columns.
Note
Signatures: vol. 1: a-b⁴ B-2F⁴; vol. 2: a-b⁴ c² B-2B⁴ 2C-2F².
Note
A translation into English by Joseph Browne from the original French of "Histoire générale des drogues".
Note
Pagination and numbering of plates but not register continuous between the two volumes.
Note
T.p.s to both vols. enclosed in a plain rule-border.
Note
Titlepages to both vols. printed in red and black.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T113762
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754. Inscription on front flyleaf: N. Mann.
Binding
18th century English calf; concentric frames of blind tooled double fillet, alternately sprinkled and left bare; inner frame also formed of blind tooled swag-and-flower, and flower rolls; lozenge fleurons at each corner of second frame; gold tooled scroll roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; spine label now lost, with letters imprinted on spine; five raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dc.4.14.
Copy-specific note
Loose sheet of notes in 18th-century hand, taken from Strabo, Isidore, Arrian and Pliny.
Subject
Medicinal plants Early works to 1800.
Subject
Medicine Early works to 1800.
Subject
Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions Early works to 1800.
Subject
Pharmacology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Materia medica Early works to 1800.
Subject
Drugs Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Smith, Ralph, active 1697 - 1721 publisher.
Added entry--name
Parker, Richard, fl. 1692 - 1725 publisher.
Added entry--name
Tooke, Benjamin, ? - d. 1716 publisher.
Added entry--name
Nicholson, John, ? - d. ca. 1717 publisher.
Added entry--name
Manship, S. (Samuel) (Samuel), publisher.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Matthew, ? - d. ca. 1729 publisher.
Added entry--name
Walthoe, John, 1657 or 8 - 1744 publisher.
Added entry--name
Goodwin, Timothy, 1670 - 1729 publisher.
Added entry--name
Freeman, William, fl. 1682 - 1715 publisher.
Added entry--name
Bonwicke, R. (Rebecca), active 1706 - 1711 (Rebecca), publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B46311