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Abrégé de l'histoire des plantes usuelles : dans lequel on donne leurs noms différens, tant françois que latins : la maniere de s'en servir : la dose, & les principales compositions de pharmacie, dans lesquelles on les emploie / par feu Pierre Jean-Bapt. Chomel ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QK99 .C465 1761 Frost copy t.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chomel, Pierre Jean Baptiste, 1671-1740.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
- Botany, Medical.
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Beurelin, M. (inscription) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : portrait ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée.
- Fingerprint:
- a-es laLa e,s, plce (3) 1761 (R) v.1
- s,n- ens- e.re teda (3) 1761 (R) v.2
- r-s. 6.eu inla mepa (3) 1761 (R) v.3
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Guillyn, libraire ..., MDCCLXI [1761]
- Notes:
- Signatures: t. 1: a⁸ A-S¹² (leaf S12 blank) ; t. 2: pi² A-S¹² (leaves S11 and S12 blanks) ; t. 3: pi² A-L¹² M⁴.
- Pagination: t. 1: xvj, 429, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates ; t. 2: [4], 428, [4] p. ; v. 3: [4], 265, [7] p.
- Engraved frontispiece plate in v. 1 signed: R. Tourniere, pinx., J. Daullé, sculp.
- Woodcut initial, head- and tail-pieces; type ornament head- and tail-pieces.
- Errata at end of t. 3.
- Includes bibliographical references (t. 3, pages [210]-214) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy: t. 1 has early ms. inscription ("a M Beurelin") in brown ink on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf; t. 2-3 each has the same inscription on verso of half-title leaf.
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: t. 1: paper slip with early ms. notes in French laid in.
- Frost Collection copy: each vol. bound in full mottled calf(?); gold-ruled cover edges; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("PLANT DE CHOME"); vol. number stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges red.
- Frost Collection copy: t. 3: leaves A6 and A7 detached.
- OCLC:
- 974548863
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