Translation and revision, by Joseph Browne, of: Histoire générale des drogues, first printed Paris, 1694.

List of subscribers: volume 1, pages [14-15], 1st count.

"A catalogue of the seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands ...": volume 2, pages [13-20], 1st count.

The first volume includes materia medica derived from the seeds, roots, wood, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, and juices of plants and trees; it includes discussions of cacao, chocolate, the "long American pepper," sugar, and tobacco, among many others. The second volume includes materia medica derived from animals, metals, fossils, minerals, bitumens, stones, and soil; it includes discussions of the bezoar, ambergris, and sperm whale oil, among many others.

Pagination: volume 1: [16], 224 page, 68 leaves of plates; volume 2: [20], 225-419, [13] pages, [18] leaves of plates.

Signatures: volume 1: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) B-2F⁴; volume 2: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) c² B-2B⁴ 2C-2F² (2C2 verso blank)

Errors in paging: volume 2, page 387 misnumbered 368.

Text printed in two columns.

Includes index.

Bookseller's advertisements: volume 2, pages [12-13], 2rd count.

Title pages printed in red and black ink; titles printed within double rule.

Plates in volume 1 are numbered 1-68; plates in volume 2 arenumbered 69-86.

"An account of the names of authors quoted in this work": volume 2, pages [3-12], 1st count.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 3219.

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 428.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, IV: page 411.

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 7258n.

English short title catalogue, T113762.

European Americana, 712/175.

Purchase; 2018; 19-132.