THE PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AT EDINBURGH 1748 W. LEWIS

[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]. The Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh. Faithfully Translated from the Fourth Edition. With Useful Notes on the Materia Medica, and Practical Observations on the Preparations, Both Simple and Compound. To Which are Added the Prescriptions, as well Extemporaneous as Officinal, in Use at the Royal Hospital. By W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S. London: printed for John Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street in the Strand, MDCCXLVIII. [1748].

Fifth edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 140 x 40 mm). Pp. [16], 362,[38]. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf. Head- and tail-pieces. Appendix and index to rear. Condition: FAIR. Textually complete but lacking to front blank endpaper. Binding secure, however the joints are starting slightly. Rubbing with losses to spine ends and points. Browning and toning, a handful of leaves with inking. Final textual leaf with small corner piece missing just touching errata details. Fair but a scarce title.

Notes: A translation of the 1744 edition of Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis.