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040 $aDLC$cDLM$dm/c$dHHG
041 1 $aeng$hfre
090 $aRM84$b.P65 1737
100 1 $aPomet, Pierre,$d1658-1699.
245 12 $aA compleat history of druggs :$cwritten in French by Monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral ; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts ; illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts, curiously done from the life ; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth, and countries from whence they are brought ; the way to know the true from the false ; their virtues & c. ; a work of very great use and curiosity ; done into English from the originals.
246 3 $aA complete history of drugs
250 $aThe third edition.
260 $aLondon :$bprinted for J. and J. Bonwicke, R. Wilkin, S. Birt, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed,$cMDCCXXXVII [1737]
300 $a[24], 419, [9] p., 86 leaves of plates ;$c23 cm. (4to)
500 $aTitle in red and black; end pieces.
500 $aTranslation, with omissions, of the author's Histoire générale des drogues. The anonymous translator and editor has drawn upon the works of Tournefort and Lémery, and has added to Pomet's descriptions and history of each drug that of Lémery, as extracted from his Traité universel des drogues simples. cf. Dedication and pref.
500 $a"Names of the authors quoted in this work": p. [13]-[19]
500 $a"A catalogue of seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands": p. [21]-[24]
500 $aIncludes index.
510 4 $aESTC,$cT112243
650 0 $aMateria medica$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aDrugs$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aBotany, Medical$vEarly works to 1800
650 0 $aZoology, Medical$vEarly works to 1800.
650 2 $aMateria Medica.
650 2 $aPharmaceutical Preparations.
650 2 $aBotany.
700 1 $aTournefort, Joseph Pitton de,$d1656-1708.
700 1 $aLémery, Nicolas,$d1645-1715.$tTraité universel des drogues simples.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.