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, Arnold Doude, 1674. 4to. With a woodcut view of Leiden Universitys academy building on the title page (Doude used it as a publishers device 1674-1679, replacing an earlier version used 1668-1671) and many printed tables and schemes. Modern red cloth, red morocco spine label with the title in gold. [8], 252 pp.
€ 750
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 the owner's inscription of John Redman Coxe (1773-1863) on the title page, an important 19th-century physician from Philadelphia, and with the blind-stamped library stamp of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy on the title page. Some browning, especially on the first and last leaves, otherwise in good condition. BMN I, p. 358; Jorissen, Het chem. Lab. der Univ. te Leiden (1909); Poggendorf, II, p. 80; STCN 063157810 (4 copies); USTC 1811047 (5 copies, 4 also in STCN); Wellcome IV, p. 53.
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