[HERBAL].
Nöthige, zuverlässige und kurze Nachricht von denenjenigen Stücken aus dem Pflanzenreiche, welche in den Apotheken der meisten Länder Europens aufbehalten werden müssen, zum Gebrauche der Apotheken verfertiget und dem Drucke übergeben.
Dresden, Johann Nikolaus Gerlach and son, 1764. 8vo. With an engraved plate showing the annual flowering plant Chenopodium botrys. Contemporary boards, spine strengthened with marbled paper. [8], 724, [2] pp.
€ 1,250
Rare first and only edition of a basic herbal intended for apothecaries, giving descriptions of ca. 750 plants. All entries are alphabetically ordered using Linnaean plant names and are followed by the common name in German, other nomenclature, a visual description and a specification of the parts used for medicine. The anonymous author writes in the preface that he had help from an experienced botanist, but curiously enough, while the descriptions are clearly carefully written, they do not discuss the medicinal qualities of the plants.
Usual minor foxing, but otherwise in very good condition, boards slightly soiled and rubbed along the extremities, but otherwise good. VD18 10578978; Waller 11695; WorldCat (9 copies).
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