A compleat history of drugs /

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Author / Creator:Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699.
Uniform title:Histoire générale des drogues. English
Imprint:London : Printed for R. Bonwicke ... [and 9 others], 1712.
Description:2 v. (419 p., 86 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
Local Note:Library wanting: v.2.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2622295
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Other authors / contributors:Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Bonwicke, Rebecca, bookseller.
Notes:Remainder of t.p. transcription: Divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy and several other arts: illustrated with 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, theit virtues &c. A work of very great use and curiosity.
First ed. of the first English translation.--Cf. Johnston, S.H. Cleveland coll., 328.
Illustrations apparently copied from the French ed. but reproduced 4 to a leaf.
Hunt botanical cat., 428.
Johnston, S.H. Cleveland coll., 328.

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