Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
SALMON, WILLIAM. Seplasium. The Compleat English Physician; or, The Druggist's Shop Opened. Explicating all the Particulars of which Medicines at this day are composed and made. Cancel letterpress table mounted on page 304. [70], 1206 pages, including half-title. 8vo, contemporary calf, spine cracked and chipped at top; dampstaining on opening leaves, vertical crease in half-title, portions of 2G3 and 2T8 torn off with substantial text loss. London: Matthew Gilliflower and Thomas Sawbridge, 1693

Additional Details

first edition. Alden 693/156 (for references to West Indian plants and medicines); Duveen 528 ("an interesting compilation by the well-known quack"); Krivatsy 10180; Wing S542; ESTC R37144 .