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100 1 $aPomet, Pierre,$d1658-1699.
240 10 $aHistoire générale des drogues.$lEnglish.
245 12 $aA compleat history of druggs, /$cwritten in French by Monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the present French king; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. 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 curisotiy. Done into English from the originals.
264 1 $aLondon: :$bPrinted for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe, Matthew Wotton, S. Manship, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Rich. Parker, and Ralph Smith.,$c1712.
300 $a2 volumes in 1 :$billustrations ;$c23 cm (4to)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia.
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier.
500 $aTranslation and revision, by Joseph Browne, of: Histoire générale des drogues, first printed Paris, 1694.
500 $aList of subscribers: volume 1, pages [14-15], 1st count.
500 $a"A catalogue of the seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands ...": volume 2, pages [13-20], 1st count.
500 $aThe 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.
500 $aPagination: volume 1: [16], 224 page, 68 leaves of plates; volume 2: [20], 225-419, [13] pages, [18] leaves of plates.
500 $aSignatures: volume 1: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) B-2F⁴; volume 2: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) c² B-2B⁴ 2C-2F² (2C2 verso blank)
500 $aErrors in paging: volume 2, page 387 misnumbered 368.
500 $aText printed in two columns.
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $aBookseller's advertisements: volume 2, pages [12-13], 2rd count.
500 $aTitle pages printed in red and black ink; titles printed within double rule.
500 $aPlates in volume 1 are numbered 1-68; plates in volume 2 arenumbered 69-86.
504 $a"An account of the names of authors quoted in this work": volume 2, pages [3-12], 1st count.
510 4 $aNissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration,$c3219.
510 4 $aCatalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt,$c428.
510 4 $aCatalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library,$cIV: page 411.
510 4 $aPritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition),$c7258n.
510 4 $aEnglish short title catalogue,$cT113762.
510 4 $aEuropean Americana,$c712/175.
541 $cPurchase;$d2018;$e19-132.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown LIbrary copy imperfect: volume, pages 53-54, 2nd count, are torn and wanting and portion of the text; plate 42 in volume 1 is misbound before plate 43; many plates are cropped at the head, affecting plate numbers and placement instructions.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full sueded calf.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.
590 $aProvenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy Worcestershire Natural History Society, presented by O.J. Floyd, March 11th 1848: manuscript annotation of recto of front flyleaf.
650 0 $aMateria medica, Animal.
650 0 $aMateria medica, Vegetable.
650 0 $aBotany, Medical.
650 0 $aPharmacology.
650 0 $aCacao.
650 0 $aChocolate.
650 0 $aPeppers.
650 0 $aSugar.
650 0 $aTobacco.
650 0 $aBezoars.
650 0 $aAmbergris.
650 0 $aWhale oil.
650 4 $aCatalogs, Booksellers'$zGreat Britain$y1712.
653 $aImprint 1712.
700 1 $aBrowne, Joseph,$dactive 1700-1721.
700 1 $aLémery, Nicolas,$d1645-1715.
700 1 $aTournefort, Joseph Pitton de,$d1656-1708.
700 1 $aFloyd, O. J.$4fmo$5RIBRL.
710 2 $aWorcestershire Natural History Society.$4fmo$5RIBRL.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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