Pharmacopoeia.- Schroder (John) The Compleat Chymical Dispensatory, in five books: treating of all sorts of Metals, Precious Stones, and Minerals, of all vegetables and animals, and things that are taken from them, as musk, civet, &c, translated by William Rowland, first English edition, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking first and last ff., small burn hole to C1, slightly affecting 2 or 3 words, tear to V2 and 3A1 lower or outer margins, small paper flaws to endpapers and I1, occasional light worming to lower margin, occasional light staining or soiling, heaviest to 3O2-3, some spotting, browning, occasional small ink fingerposts sometimes into text, ink inscriptions to pastedowns and front free endpaper, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving fragments of original backstrip, expert repairs to corners and some edges, some rubbing, [ESTC R33737; Wing S898; Duveen p.537-38; Ferguson II, p.344], folio, by John Darby, Richard Chiswell, and Robert Clavell, 1669.

⁂ Rare first and only English edition of Schroder's Pharmacopoeia Medico-Chymica (1641), where he coined the term 'pharmacology'. This popular text became the standard textbook for German apothecaries for over a century.