Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, The London Dispensatory. [24], 305, [35] pages. 8vo, 179x114 mm, contemporary panelled sheep, vertical crack in spine, ends chipped, joints and hinges reinforced, cover corners worn through, small piece of leather missing from bottom of front cover; margins trimmed close just entering text on preliminaries A2-3 and on pages 246 and 262 but otherwise affecting only some headlines or catchwords, contents toned with scattered foxing and ink spots, varying marginal soiling, rust hole in G4 touching a few letters, dampstaining in lower margins toward end. Signatures of Wiliam Whipple dated 1750 and James Simpson dated 1777. Boston: John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1720

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first american edition of the first London pharmacopoeia, originally published in 1650. "This 1720 Boston edition . . . enjoys the triple distinction of being the first herbal, the first pharmacopoeia, and the first full-length medical book published in the American colonies"--Norman 542. Austin 591; Garrison-Morton 1828.2; Guerra a-48.