La nueva farmacopea del Real Colegio de Médicos de Londres, y su análisis, ó sea, La explicacion de la naturaleza, principios, virtudes, usos y dosis de sus preparaciones y composiciones / por el Doctor Roberto White ; traducidas del ingles con notas relativas á la farmácia, é historia natural y médica de España por el Dr. Don Casimiro Gomez de Ortega, primer catedrático del Real Jardin Botanico, director del Real Colegio de Boticarios de esta Corte, boticario mayor honorario del rey N. S. y alcalde exâminador decano de la sala de farmácia en el Real Protomedicato.
Madrid: En la imprenta de la viuda de don Joaquin Ibarra, 1797. [3] preliminary leaves, 145 pp., 165 pp., [2]. 8vo. Full speckled calf, red spine label, gilt title & bands, marbled endpapers. First edition. Boards rubbed and damp stained at corners, small nick at head of spine, top fore corner dampstained but not affecting text, still about very good. Palau 375019 &104233. Wellcome IV, p. 366. Piñal IV: 1687. Item #44342
Translation of: "The new Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London" which is Thomas Heald's translation of: "Pharmacopoeia Londinensis." Includes a translation of: Robert White's "An analysis of The new London pharmacopoeia." OCLC locates only three copies in American Libraries: National Lib. of Medicine, Univ. Wisc. and Duke; and seven in Europe. One is also located at Univ. de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas.
Price: $500.00