An Experimental History of the Materia Medica, or of the Natural and Artificial Substances Made Use of in Medicine: Containing a Compendious View of Their Natural History, an Account of Their Pharmaceutical Properties, and an Estimate of Their Medicinal Powers, So Far as They Can Be Ascertained by Experience, or by Rational Induction from Their Sensible Qualities. By William Lewis, M.B. F.R.S. London: Printed by H. Baldwin, for the Author; and Sold by R. Willock, MDCCLXI (1761).
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FIRST EDITION of William Lewis' well known work on medicine, focussing on the use of substances/drugs in medicine. This first edition is very scarce indeed.
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Provenance:
Ownership inscription of James Williams dated 1789.
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Size: 222 x 273 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), i-xxii, 2pp., 591pp., 18pp. (index), 13pp. (index), 1pp. (errata), (1)]
Half calf with red tooled label between raised bands outlined in gilt. Spine evenly sunned with very minor rubbing. Tooled label with very minor loss to extremities. Both boards securely attached with reinforced hinges. Boards scuffed and rubbed with loss. Shelf and edge wear, more so to corners, with some loss. Page edges with some toning and a damp stain to the top page edges which has seeped through onto sporadic pages. Ink ownership inscription to the head of the ffep. Some foxing to endpapers. Text block very clean with some toning and occasional foxing.
[OCLC 3852073, 14305639, 1205336439; ESTC N002352, N2352; MMSID 9941105993804341].
