[Pharmacopoeia. Switzerland] Pharmacopoea Helvetica, in duas partes divisa,

quarum prior materiam medicam, botanico-physico-medice descriptam, posterios composita & praeparata, modum praeparandi vires & usum exhibet. Accedut Syllabus medicamentorum in classes divisus, et duo indices necessarii (...). Basel, J.R. Imhof and sons, 1771. Three parts in 1 vol., 13,(1 blank); 28; (2),212; 384; 54 p., w. engr. frontisp. by I.G. Sturm, cont. hvellum w. vellum letterpiece on spine, folio. Occas. browned or w. foxed spots. Binding shows some imperfections. A very good copy.

*With bookplate of the Bohemian Jewish pharmacologist Emil Starkenstein (1884-1942), killed in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. He was one of the most important (experimental) pharmacologists at the time, pioneer of clinical pharmacology, and owner of one of the most impressive libraries in the field ever assembled. It was sold before the war to Ludwig Gottschalk, who hid the books and vanished himself. After the war, he reassembled the Starkenstein books and sold books from it for decades. Blake, p. 350. The first and only edition of the first official Swiss phamacopoeia, authorized by the Basel College of Physicians, its title very much alike the Wittenberg pharmacopeia, of which the 5th ed. appeared in Stuttgart in the same year as our work.