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, curiously done from the life; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth and countries from whence they are brought; the way to know the true from the false; their virtues &c. A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals.

  • Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699.
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1725
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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, curiously done from the life; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth and countries from whence they are brought; the way to know the true from the false; their virtues &c. A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : R. and J. Bonwicke,and R. Wilkin [etc.], 1725.

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2 volumes (cont. pag.) in 1, 86 plates ; (4to)

Edition

2nd ed.

References note

ESTC T111989
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1109

Notes

Translation, with omissions, of the author's Histoire générale des drogues. Pomet acknowledged that much of his material was supplied by Tournefort and other friends. The anonymous translator and editor has drawn upon the works of Tournefort and Lémery when their descriptions have appeared more accurate and concise than those of Pomet, and has added to Pomet's description 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": 7th-10th prelim. leaves.
Copy 1 Note: Fly leaf inscribed 'Ann Grosvenor her booke 1729'. With bookplate of Earl Gower and armorial stamp of Duke of Sutherland on front cover.

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