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First edition of a textbook on the making and preparation of medicines

MARGGRAF, Christian.
Materia medica contracta, exhibens simplicia & composita medicamenta officinalia ex magno numero selecta, praestantia atque utilia, munita viribus & dosibus methodoque simplicial deligedi, praeparandi & componendi:destinate pharmacopoeorum praecipue ...
Leiden, Aernout Doude, 1674. 4to. With a woodcut view of Leiden Universitys academy building on ther title-page (Doude used it as a publishers device 1674-1679, replacing an earlier version used 1668-1671) and many printed tables and schemes. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [8], 252 pp.
€ 1,950
First edition of a textbook on the making and preparation of medicines, by the German Christian Marggraf (Liepstadt 1626-1687). The second, enlarged edition followed in 1681; the third in 1682.
After studying at Leiden University (registered in 1652), Marggraf was awarded his MD at Franeker, but returned to Leiden where he settled as a physician. He also lectured privately in his own house with considerable success, but came in conflict with the ambitious apothecary, private lecturer and future Leiden University professor of chemistry, Jacobus Le Mort, which put an end to his career.
With owners inscriptions of one of the dedicatees, A. Schilders, dated 1697, on the front paste-down and, on the verso of third end leaf, of Jacobus Grant a Mullochard, who presented the book in his 1706 will to (3) A.W. van der Brantts(?), (see: Smith, Engl. speaking students of med. at the University of Leyden, p. 101). In good condition. W.P.Jorissen, Het chem. lab. der Univ. te Leiden (1909); Wellcome Lib. IV, p. 53.
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