First edition of a textbook on the making and preparation of medicines, by the German Christian Marggraf (Liepstadt 1626-1687). The second, enlarged edition followed in 1681; the third in 1682.
After studying at Leiden University (registered in 1652), Marggraf was awarded his MD at Franeker, but returned to Leiden where he settled as a physician. He also lectured privately in his own house with considerable success, but came in conflict with the ambitious apothecary, private lecturer and future Leiden University professor of chemistry, Jacobus Le Mort, which put an end to his career.
With owners inscriptions of one of the dedicatees, A. Schilders, dated 1697, on the front paste-down and, on the verso of third end leaf, of Jacobus Grant a Mullochard, who presented the book in his 1706 will to (3) A.W. van der Brantts(?), (see: Smith, Engl. speaking students of med. at the University of Leyden, p. 101). In good condition. W.P.Jorissen, Het chem. lab. der Univ. te Leiden (1909); Wellcome Lib. IV, p. 53.