Very rare fourth(?) Venice edition of Fuller's popular pharmacopeia, first published in 1701. All Venice editions include three additional pharmaceutical works: a collection of recipes by Philipp Fraundorffer first published in 1699, Wolfgang Christian's "thesaurus" of the work of Daniel Ludwig first published in 1707 and Joseph Jackson's medical compendium first published in 1698.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) was an English physician and author. His publishing career began with an appendix to the third edition of the Pharmacopoeia Bateana (1700) of which he later published his own edition (1718). Based on his own collections of recipes were the very popular Pharmacopoeia extemporanea (1701) and Pharmacopoeia domestica (1723) which went through multiple editions both in England and abroad. Exanthematologia, his most important work, on smallpox, was published in 1729, by which time he was almost blind.
With the bookplate of the Gouda pharmacist Elize Grendel (1899-1986) on the first blank and an occasional manuscript annotation. A minor waterstain in the head margin of the first and last few leaves and the boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in very good condition. Wellcome III, p. 76; WorldCat (2 copies?); cf. ICCU 026184 (2 copies of 1776 Venice ed.); this edition not in Blake; ICCU.