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RENOU, Jean de |
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A MEDICINAL DISPENSATORY, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Virtues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: the manner of Compounding MEDICAMENTS, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in FIVE BOOKS |
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. London, Printed for Jo. Streater and Ja. Cottrel; sold by Henry Fletcher. 1657. Portrait frontispiece, extreme lower corners torn away and repaired; title page in facsimile; pp. (lii, 2 leaves of 'To the Reader'in facsimile, 738, (lxxviii - Table (i.e. Index) and separate title page (repairs to top margin) to A Physical Dictionary. Recent half calf. Faint stain to fore-edge of some leaves, very occasional spotting and marginal repairs. |
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* Wing 1037A. Krivatsky 9568 but sold by John Garfield. The Dispensatory is the English translation of Renou's Institutiones Pharmaceuticarum, first published in Paris in 1608 and which went through several editions. Renou, about whom little is known, is given on the title page as Chief Physician to the Monarch of France. He is cited in Waring, Bibliotheca Therapeutica, along with Arbaud as the author of a publication on mercury in 1606. Tomlinson was a member of the Society of Apothecaries. He is recorded as taking apprentices, the first in 1658. In 1669 he gave £10, a substantial sum then, towards the rebuilding of Apothecaries' Hall which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
This item is scarce. £565 £510 |
| Author: |
MACMICHAEL, William |
| Title: |
THE GOLD-HEADED CANE |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Murray, 1827. Extra illustrated copy. pp. (viii with 2 blanks), 179, (i); 98 inserted Plates each with tissue guard, with reference to the plate in the text on the opposing page; mainly portraits but also buildings and including as a Frontispiece the College of Physicians followed by The Siege of Warwick Castle – Battle between the Fellows and Licentiates; 1 folding – Consultation of Physicians, after Hogarth. Also woodcuts in the text. Contemporary full polished dark blue calf with raised bands and gilt decoration (slight rubbing of spine); all edges gilt. Occasional light spotting in the text and on some plates. Contemporary ink comment in Latin at foot of portrait of the Bishop of Rochester; light water stain in lower corner of portraits of Sir Humphrey Davy and John Hunter. |
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* G&M 6709. Besides good biographies of the several owners of the gold-headed cane (now in the R.C.P. London) including Radcliffe, Mead and Baillie, the book gives interesting information on the condition of medicine in England in the 18th century.
A number of extra illustrated copies have been offered on the market with varying numbers of inserted plates ranging from 40 to 72 but the present copy seems to be most unusual in having so many – 98 plates.
£775 £600 |
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