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First edition of a new Pharmacopeia for the Kingdom of Bavaria (1856)

[BAVARIA - PHARMACOPOEIA].
Pharmakopoe für das Königreich Bayern. Neue Bearbeitung. Auf königlichen Befehl herausgegeben.
München, Johann Palm, 1856. Large 8vo. With the royal coat-of-arms of Bavaria on the title-page. Half light brown buckram. XII, 378 pp.
€ 250
First edition of a new Pharmacopeia for the Kingdom of Bavaria, ordered by the liberal King Maximilian II (1811-1864, who succeeded his father in the revolutionary year 1848) to replace the obsolete Bavarian Pharmacopeia of 1822. The compilers of the new work were a.o. Prof. Max Pettenkofer, Hofapotheker and first German Hygienist (1818-1901) and Dr. Ernst Aug. Buchner.
Library stamp on title. Some stains, especially on the first leaves, otherwise in good condition. The afterword by Wolgang Schneider in the reprint of the Pharmakopoe of 1988; Neues Repertorium für die Pharmacie, vol. 9 (1859), 3. Abschnitt, pp. 39-43.
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