[Botany and pharmacopoeias] Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea:

Or, A Complete English Dispensatory in Four Parts. Containing I. The Theory of Pharmacy (...). II. A Description of the Officinal Simples (...). III. The Officinal Compositions (...). IV. Extemporaneous Prescriptions (...). By John Quincy. The eight edition, much enlarged and corrected (...). London, printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1730, (16),674,(62) p., contemporary calf with gilt, ribbed back.

First quire misbound; waterstained at beginning and end; leather across hinges split; spine ends outer corners worn. Inserted in the book are several interesting contemporary pharmaceutical recipes/ingredient lists in manuscript, incl. a shopping list (with e.g. "Laudanum Liquidum") on which the name "admiralen Gordon" [possibly Admiral Thomas Gordon (1658-1751)] appears, dated 28 July 1728. On the author John Quincy (d. 1722) and his works, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_(medical_writer): "His "English Dispensatory" (1721), of which a fourth edition appeared in 1722 and a twelfth in 1749, contains a complete account of the materia medica and of therapeutics, and many of the prescriptions contained in it were popular." With: The British Herbal and Family Physician to which is added a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Families by Nich. Culpepper. Halifax, Nicholson & Co., n.d. (ca. 1815), 2 parts in one volume, 421;317 p., with 52 hand-coloured, engraved, botanical plates in the first part and 7 engraved, anatomical plates printed in red and brown in part 2, contemporary half leather, gilt back with morocco title shield (partly affected/stained by damp and with wormholes). (total 2)