Pharmacy, Pharmacy--Early works to 1800, RS79 .I266 1508
Text in Gothic letters in double columns, some woodcut initials, and spaces with guide letters; washed; recased in its original calf backed wooden... Show moreText in Gothic letters in double columns, some woodcut initials, and spaces with guide letters; washed; recased in its original calf backed wooden boards, four clasps, the thongs renewed. The penultimate incunable edition of what "remained for centuries the standard text-book of pharmacy in the West" (Sarton), with the commentary of Mondino, the great anatomist, and other texts including Abulcasis' Liber servitoris. Mesue "was for centuries the authority on the composition of medicaments. The book was not only in use in practically every European pharmacy but in addition became the basis of the later official pharmacopoeias. The Grabadin [or Antidotarium, contained here] is, as Sudhoff calls it, 'the pharmacological quintessence of Arabian therapeutics' and contains the entire armamentarium of compounded medicines which we owe to the Arabians. The arrangement is like that of the later pharmacopoeias. The compounded medicines are divided into groups according to their forms - confections, juleps, syrups, etc. - the monographs containing directions for the preparation of the respective products and also notes on their medical uses" (Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History of Pharmacy, 1940, p. 21). Much of the basic terminology of pharmacy, words such as julep and syrup, derives from the Arabic. EI, III, pp. 872-73; Sezgin, III, pp. 231-36. H *IIIII; Choulant p. 355; Goff M516; Klebs 680.14; Sarton I 728. Imprint from colophon. Includes Registrum at the end Capital spaces with guide letters. Main Heritage Shelves General RS79 .I266 1508 Book Item-ID: i22814644 BIB-ID: 2427303 Show less
AVICENNA. Flores [colophon:] Lyons, Claude Davot for Barthelemi Trot, 1508. Small 8vo, 1l (bin.) + 1(t) + 1 + 2 (contents) + 332 + 1 + 1l (bin.),... Show moreAVICENNA. Flores [colophon:] Lyons, Claude Davot for Barthelemi Trot, 1508. Small 8vo, 1l (bin.) + 1(t) + 1 + 2 (contents) + 332 + 1 + 1l (bin.), with woodcut initials to each book, rubricated in red; modern brown morocco. First edition of this epitome of the Canon, edited by Michael de Capella, printed for Barthelemi Trot in Lyons (a second appeared in 1514, printed by Gillbert de Villiers, a third by the same printer with additions in 1528). This edition is rare: not in Baudrier. Little is known of Capella. His first book was an edition of Gilbertus Anglicanus, 1510. He also published an epitome of Haly Abbas in 1523. Adams A2319; Durling 411; IA 110.583; not in the British Library, not in Wellcome. Initials. Edited by Michael de Capella. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.3.A97 F56 1508 Book Item-ID: i10092572 BIB-ID: 1010893 Show less