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RAY, John |
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A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS TRAVELS AND VOYAGES |
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In Two Tomes. The First containing Dr Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern Countries, as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The Second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea. &c. from the Observations of Mons. Belon, Mr Vernon, Dr Spon, Dr Smith, Dr Huntingdon, Mr Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot’s Collections, and others. To which are added, Three Catalogues of such Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs as grow in the Levant. FIRST EDITION. London, S. Smith and B. Walford, 1693. pp. (xxxii), 396, (iv), 1 – 186, 45, (iii - Pubs. ads.). Contemporary calf (a little marked), rebacked, corners knocked. Bookplate: Ex libris The New York Horticultural Society bequest of Kenneth Mackenzie on first f.e.p.which is chipped at the fore margin; sig. of G. Vernon 1817 on front pastedown. Most of the text browned, sometimes heavily; tiny worm hole at extreme fore margin of first few leaves. |
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* Wing 385, only ed. here; Krivatsky 9400. Ray (1629-1705) was born and died at Black Notley in Essex. He obtained his B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1648 and was elected F.R.S. in 1667. Ray published this work in order to draw attention to the botanical observations contained in the writings of Rauwolf and others. He revised the text of Staphorst’s translation of Dr Leonhart Rauwolf’s ‘Travels’ and added a catalogue of rare oriental plants; Ray wrote to Sir Hans Sloane inviting him to make additions to this list. Staphorst was a German who, according to Ray in a letter to Edward Llwyd, was the “chymical operator to the Company of ye Apothecaries” (Keynes).
Rauwolf (1535-1596) was born in Augsburg and studied at Montpellier and then at Valence where he received his M.D. degree; he became city physician at Augsburg in 1570. He went on a 33 month field trip to Marseilles and the Near East in 1573 with the aim of finding new drugs from plants; his description of the preparation and drinking of coffee in Aleppo is the first such report by a European. In 1703, in recognition of Rauwolf’s many achievements, Plumier dedicated to him a genus of tropical plants, ‘Rauwolfia serpentina’. Rauwolfia alkaloids, of which reserpine accounts for 50% of its activity, are still in medicinal use today (DSB, xi, 311).
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| Author: |
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.
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