[MONS - PHARMACOPOEIA].
Codex medicamentarius amplissimi senatus Montensis auctoritate munitus.
Mons, Henri Bottin, 1755. 4to. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [10], 215, [44], [1 blank] pp.
€ 1,800
Rare first and only edition of the Mons pharmacopoeia. Although the Vienna pharmacopoeia had been officially designated as the standard for the Austrian Netherlands, the city of Mons published its own pharmacopoeia in 1755, making it the last city in the Low Countries to create a new pharmacopoeia.
With early owner's inscriptions. Title-page detached, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding worn at the spine and extremities, and spine-label lost. Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 65-66 (3 copies); Wellcome IV, p. 368; WorldCat (2 copies); not in Blake.
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