Rare second French edition of a pharmacopoeia first published in Latin and reaching more-or-less its completed form with the Latin edition published at Lyon in 1548, but with predecessors going back to 1541. The present first French translation was first published at Lyon in 1574. The book was compiled by the Paris Galenist physician and professor of anatomy, Jacques Dubois (or Jacobus Sylvius, 1478?-1555), teacher of Vesalius, and translated by the Lyon physician André Caille (1515-1580). The three "libri" cover collecting simples, preparing simples and preparing compound medicines. The 1548 edition introduced the title Pharmacopoeae, which many later pharmacopoeia followed. GLN 15-16 records a larger version of Cloquemin's woodut device in books printed for him anonymously by Jacob Stoer in Geneva in 1579 and 1580. We have not had the opportunity to compare the materials in the present edition with Stoer's materials, but GLN 15-16 does not record the present edition among its books anonymously printed by Stoer.
With 2 early owners inscriptions on the integral final blank and an occasional contemporary manuscript note (1 extensive). With a minor water stain at the head of the page, occasionally touching the running heads, but still in good condition. The binding has been extensively reworked but is structurally sound. Durling 1248; USTC (8 copies); Waller 2588; cf. Adams S2173-2178 (Latin eds.); Osler 4067 (Dubois Latin ed. of 1553); Schelenz, Gesch. Pharmazie, p. 410 (1574 & 1611 French eds.); Wellcome 6161-6163 (other Lyons French eds.); not in Hagelin, Materia medica; Heirs of Hippocrates; Honeymann.