[VIENNA - LOUVAIN - PHARMACOPOEIA].
Dispensatorium pharmaceuticum Austriaco-Viennense, in quo hodierna die usualiora medicamenta secundum artis regulas componenda visuntur.
Leuven, Joannes Franciscus van Overbeke, 1774. 8vo. Contemporary cat's paw calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [26], 395, [45], XXVI, IX, [2], [1 blank] pp.
€ 1,250
Brussels edition of the official dispensatory for the Habsburg Monarchy. Its contents are identical to the second edition of the Vienna pharmacopoeia (1737), but it adds an appendix by the Collegium Medicum of Brussels, containing extra preparations which were commonly used in the Austrian Netherlands, is added. The first edition of the pharmacopoeia had been published in Vienna 1729, with a second edition appearing in 1737.
With a contemporary inscription in English on 3Kv. Binding worn at the extremities; spine and front hinge with a few small holes; a very good copy. Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 151-152; WorldCat (7 copies); not in Wellcome; Blake; STCV.
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