A compleat history of druggs / written in French by Monsieur Pomet ... 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 ... Done into English from the originals.
- Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699.
- Date:
- 1737
- Books
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Publication/Creation
London : Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, R. Wilkin [etc.], 1737.
Physical description
2 volumes (cont. pag.) in 1, 86 plates ; (4to)
Edition
3rd ed.
References note
ESTC T112243
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2316
Notes
Title in red and black; end pieces
Translation, 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
"Names of the authors quoted in this work": p. [13]-[19]
"A catalogue of seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands": p. [21]-[24]
Plate 13 bound out of order, after 14
Includes index
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/C/41750