Matthiae Tilingii, Med. U. Doctoris professoris primarii, archiatri Hassiaci, Sacri Romani Imperii Academiae Naturae Curiosorum Collegae, Zephyri dicti, & p.t. Universitatis Hasso-Schaumburgicae rectoris, Rhabarbarologia seu Curiosa rhabarbari disquisitio : illius etymologiam, differentiam, locum natalem, formam, temperamentum, vires, substantiam, &c. Item ejus adulterationem, conservationem, electionem, noxam & correctionem, dosin atque usum pharmaceuticum, chymico-medicum, omnibus penè humani corporis partibus destinatum, additis diversis observationibus, & quaestionibus, rhabarbarum concernentibus, detegens, ad normam et formam Sacri Romani Imperii Academiae Naturae Curiosorum congesta.

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Rhabarbarologia seu Curiosa rhabarbari disquisitio

Curiosa rhabarbari disquisitio

Rhabarbarologia curiosa

Encyclopedia on rhubarb and its medicinal uses, along with a general survey of the minerals, animals, and plants of China.

Francofurti ad Moenum : Sumptibus Jacobi Gothofredi Seyleri, M.DC.LXXIX. [1679]

24 unnumbered pages, 782 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : portrait ; 4to (20 cm)

Pages 144-152 misnumbered 146-154.

Title page printed in red and black.

Added engraved title page. Title reads: "Matthiae Tilingii Rhabarborologia curiosa".

Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author ("M. Hailler sc.") on leaf pi1v.

Running title reads: Rhabarbarologia curiosa.

Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek and German.

Main body of text printed in double columns.

Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Lacks plates. Bound in 18th century parchment. Stamp of Medical Society of London on t.p.

Copy 2. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Lacks final blank leaf. Bound in 20th century green buckram, goatskin spine and corners.