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Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition

Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition

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Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique. Nouvelle Edition

by Charas Moyse

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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.

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Bookseller
Pazzo Books US (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 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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