Ad 1: Unrecorded first issue of the rare third edition of the Ghent pharmacopoeia, the first to call itself a "pharmacopoea" (instead of "antidotarium") in the title.
This copy differs slightly from all others recorded in that it contains a somewhat different preface and approval, which is signed only by A.C.J. van Rossum and dated 1755. It therefore lacks the more expanded approval from 1756 of the professors of the University of Louvain, including that of Van Rossum, as well as the subsequent dedication to Empress Maria Theresa. The present variant is therefore almost certainly an earlier issue.
Ad 2: New edition of the taxa, regulating the prices of pharmacists in Ghent. The previous version dates from 1690, and this new edition was published to reflect the changes made in the pharmacopoeia of 1756.
With the binding worn at the spine and somewhat along the extremities. Slightly thumbed, with a small tear in the fore-edge margin of pp. 239-248 and a water stain in the fore-edge margin of the final part of ad 1 starting at p. 265; a good copy. Ad 1: Anet (2 copies); Daems & Vandewiele, p. 106 (3 copies); STCV (2 copies); WorldCat (1 copy); not in Blake; Wellcome; ad 2: Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 106-107; not in STCV; WorldCat.