Lemery, Nicolas (1645-1715)

Tractat universal de drogas simples. Ahont se troba los diferents noms, origen, y calitats...en los vegetables, animals y minerals, las quals son treatas y copiadas del llibre de Nicolas Lameri...treduit de Frances en liengua Catalana...per Francisco Rodrigues, jove adroguer...Half title 'Historia general de drogues' within an ornamental pen-drawn border, title-page within historiated pen-drawn panel, lettered in red and black. On the verso a full-page pen-drawing of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. Heading and initials of the text in red, some pen-drawn illustrations, but the majority of the spaces left unfilled. After p. 139 of the first part the writing changes from an upright hand to a sloped current hand. Produced in Barcelona.

1733

1 volume 10 ll. (4 bl.). + 282 pp. + 6 ll. + 2 ll. + 113 pp. + 7 ll. (5 bl.). + 1 l. + 74 pp. + 15 ll. (12 bl.). folio. 321/2 x 231/2 cm. Original gilt-stamped calf binding over wooden boards, worn.

Purchased 1908.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).