A compleat history of drugs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699
Other Authors:	Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715, Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708, Donatus, Joseph
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English translation of original French title Histoire générale des drogues by Pomet with translated selections from Lémery's Traité des drogues simples and Tournefort's Materia medica.
Published:	London : Brummell Press, 1970.
Edition:	A facsim. edition.
Subjects:	Drugs > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Early works to 1800. Herbs > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800. Materia medica > Early works to 1800. Animal Population Groups. Plants, Medicinal. Drugs. Herbs > Therapeutic use. Materia medica. Early works. Handbooks and manuals. Herbals > 1712 > Facsimiles.

Description
Item Description:	"First published in the year 1712." "This edition limited to 500 copies ..."--Page [2] (first unnumbered sequence). Includes facsimiles of original title pages of volumes 1-2 printed in red and black. Includes "An account of the names of the authors quoted in this work" (pages [1]-[10] (second unnumbered sequence))--and "A catalogue of the seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands" (pages [11]-[18] (second unnumbered sequence)) by Joseph Donatus. Includes index (pages [2]-[13] (third unnumbered sequence)).
Physical Description:	2 volumes in 1 (22 unnumbered pages, 224 pages, 20 unnumbered pages, 225-419 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 86 leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm