[Pharmacopoeia. Belgium] Two (rare) titles: (1) Pharmacopoea Leodiensis, in qua describuntur medicamenta

tam simplicia quàm composita, ordine sequenti in tres partes distributa. In Prima simplicia omnia. In Altera composita Galenica. In Tertia chimica remedia. Cum adjuncta taxa & indice. Omnia ad usum medicorum patriae Leodiensis. Liège, E. Kints, 1741, (18),243,(13) p., w. engr. coat of arms, later antique style leather w. use of the orig. leather on sides, gilt and ribbed spine, 4to. Foxed/ browned throughout, extensive old annots. in pen on free endpapers (of which the lower outer corners are carefully restored) and on lower pastedown. W. old owner's entry "Latour" in two capital O's on title-p. and p. 124, and owner's entry of the Liège pharmacist H.N. Fraigneux (mid 19th cent.) on free endpaper. Daems & Vandewiele 169-70; A. Guislain, "A propos de la pharmacopée Liégeoise, p. 1-5 of Bulletin Cercle Benelux d'Histoire de la Pharmacie XXVII (Oct. 1961). Rare edition of the only Liège pharmacopoeia, also important for Maastricht. A facsimile appeared in 1975. (2) Pharmacopea Belgica. The Hague, Typographia Regia, 1823, printed in a limited, numbered and warranted (by F.J. van Maanen) edition (this copy numb. 514), XII,220,(20),221-228 p., cont. boards rebacked w. cl. w. the orig. leather backstrip laid down, 4to. Weak on hinges/ joints, internally good. Daems & Vandewiele, p. 307; Wittop Koning p. 230-32. First edition. This is in fact the first Pharmacopoeia for the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, at the time including what is now Belgium.

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