[Medicine Science] Pomet Pierre (1658 1699) A Compleat Hist

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[Medicine & Science] Pomet Pierre, (1658-1699)
A Compleat History of Druggs.

London: Printed for R. Bonwicke et alia, 1712.

First edition in English, quarto, two parts in one volume, both title pages printed in red and black, illustrated with eighty-six full-paged engravings, the majority depicting botanical specimens, other subjects include scenes illustrating the preparation of indigo, sugar cane, and tobacco by enslaved people; two indigenous people in Central America preparing achiote; and about a dozen plates of mammals, fish, reptiles, and other fauna including plates showing whaling, and the production of honey and silk; with final leaf of publisher's ads; some contemporary notes in an old reddish pencil; bound in early full leather, nicely rebacked, rubbed; ex libris T.G. Wright, M.D., with bookplate, one leaf with blind embossed stamp, 9 x 7 in.

ESTC T113762; Hunt 428; Wellcome IV 411.

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