Pharmacopoeia universalis . or, a new universal English dispensatory. Containing, I. An Account of all the Natural and Artificial Implements and Instruments of Pharmacy, together with the Processes and Operations, whereby Changes are induced in Natural Bodies for Medicinal Purposes. II. Dissertations on the various Classes of Simples; explaining their Operations and Uses in Practice. III. Catalogues of the Medicinal Simples, wherein their particular Virtues and Uses are specified. IV. The Preparations and Combinations of Drugs; containing all the Compositions directed in the London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias; together with others, selected from the most celebrated Writers in Pharmacy and Physic. With a Copious index to the Whole. By R. James, M.D.
Robert James (1703-1776)
Category
Books
Date
1752
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3155738
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 758, [38] p. ; 8vo. Imperfect: Copy lacks final leaf (blank?). Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper. Binding: eighteenth century gilt-tooled sprinkled calf; gilt tooling and gilt tooled title label reading "James's Dispensatory" on spine; text block edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Robert James (1703-1776)