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Beautiful copy with the coats of arms of the city Haarlem on front and back cover

[PHARMACOPEIA - THE NETHERLANDS].
Pharmacopoea Batava.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805. Large 8vo. With 2 folding tables. Prize-book of the Latin School at Haarlem: polished mottled calf with gilt panel of the city-virgin of Haarlem holding the coat-of-arms of the city as her shield; underneath the motto: Vicit vim virtus, on both sides, ornamental gilt border along the edges of both sides, spine gilt with orange title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, green ties. Complete with the dedication of the Latin school, presenting the book to Jacob Warning, dated Haarlem, 17 Dec. 1817 and signed by the rector and teachers of the school, bound in before the first fly-leaf. [2], L, 304, 34, [13] pp.
€ 1,250
First edition of the first national Pharmacology framed and edited by Sebald Justinus Brugmans, prof. of medicine and botany at Leiden University, Petrus Driessen, prof. at Groningen University, Gerard Vrolik, prof. at the Athenaeum Illustre, Amsterdam, and Joh. Rud. Deiman, physician at Amsterdam, by order of the Government of the Bataafse Republiek in The Hague.
The four drafters based themselves mainly on the last edition of the Pharmacopoea Amstelodamensis Nova of 1792.
In very good condition. Daems/Vandewiele, p. 13; Spoelder, p. 590; Stoeder, p. 331-336.
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