FULLER Thomas - Pharmacopoeia domestica 1723 [1st EDITION] [HOME PHARMACOPEA].

Pharmacopoeia domestica, in usum eorum, qui ruri medicinam facientes necesse habent, ut pharmacothecas privatas sibimet construant;

Scholiis, Viriumque, Enarrationibus illustrata

Ei in Libros duos diatributa

Per Thomas Fuller, M.D. Cantab

1st edition

"Domestic pharmacopoeia, intended for those who, practicing medicine in the countryside, have the need to build their own private pharmacies."

A practical pharmacopoeia with the author's formulas for medicines "which should not be missing from a pharmacist's office"

Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734) - British physician and preacher. He ran a medical practice in the county of Kent. Based on his own formulas, he published two extremely popular items "Pharmacopoeia extemporanea" (1701) and "Pharmacopoeia domestica" (1723), which received many editions both in England and abroad.

Year of publication: londini 1723, Impensis Gul. & Joh. Innys

s. [4], 260, [12].

Format: 16.5 x 10 cm

Binding: full period leather/ decorative signboard with titling on spine/ decorative decayed page edges

Condition: complete and consistent, rusty discoloration [foxing - no harm to text], soiling of upper page block, no signatures or underlining in text, foreign period signature on front pastedown dated 17.8.35 [pen], [PROVENANCE: on title page, period stamp*; on facing page, indistinct stamp "cancelled from the library Queen's Collage Oxford"; on facing pages: ex libris Denis Gibbs with Latin motto 'Tenax Propositi'; ex libris H.E. Brocksom**; ex libris of Theophilus Metcalfe with coat of arms of the Metcalfe baronets***], cover with rubbing and minor nicks/ discoloration

*stamp ofthe library of The Queen's College, Oxford

**HenryEveratt Brocksom (1900-1985) - British pharmacist; member of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy and collector of pharmaceutical antiquities.

***BaronetMetcalfe - The title of baronet in the United Kingdom. Established on December 21, 1802 for Thomas Metcalfe, Member of Parliament for Abingdon from 1796 to 1807. The title expired with the death of the eighth baronet in 1979. Each of the 8 baronets bore "Theophilus" as one of their names, hence it is difficult to indicate to which of them specifically the said ex libris belonged.

Rare 1st edition, a wonderfully preserved item with an interesting provenance, in full period leather