[PARIS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.
Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea Parisiensis, ex mandato facultatis medicinae Parisiensis in lucem edita M. Joanne-Baptista-Thoma Martinenq, Decano. Editio auctior & emendatior.
Paris, widow of Pierre Mergé for Guillaume Cavelier Sr., 1748. Large 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette, an ornamental typographical headpiece and some woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold, marbled endpapers and paste-downs, red edges. [16], CXXXII, 268, XXXIV, [6] pp.
€ 250
Fourth edition of the official pharmacopoeia of Paris, in 1639 first compiled and edited by Philippe de Hardouin de Saint-Jacques (d. 1659), dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Paris, with a second edition in 1745. The third edition was edited by Hyacinthe-Theodor Baron, also printed by Guillaume Cavalier, in 1732. The following fifth and sixth editions - perhaps the most well-known - were edited by Jean Baptist Nicolas Boyer, and printed by Cavalier in 1758 and 1760.
With two erased ownership entries (one dated 1786) on the title-page and another owner's inscription (the initials "F.M." of an apparently later owner). Binding a little worn, especially the head and bottom of the spine, corners a little bumped, otherwise in good condition. Hélène Lehmann, The Codex Medicamentarius seu Pharmacopoea Parisiensis - 5th edition of 1758.
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