Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition
by Charas Moyse
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Anisson & Posuel, 1717. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather respined and edged in modern leather, old bookplates on the added endpaper. Lovely engraved title and 5 plates. Light dampstain to foredge, plates a bit soiled at edges, a few small wormholes at rear. Explication des plus communs caracteres chymiques pasted to rear blank. Old catalog entry pasted to rear added endpaper. Very good overall. (6), 884, index. 5 plates and explication table bound at rear.
An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry.
Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 039123.
An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry.
Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 039123.
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- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039123
- Title
- Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition
- Author
- Charas Moyse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Full Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Anisson & Posuel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1717
- Keywords
- Medicine & Health; NOISBN
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About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
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