FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp.
Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica ... cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & pharmacopoeis perutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus ...
Nürnberg, Johann Friedrich Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Agenda 12mo (16.5 x 7 cm). With double-page title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf. [24], 468, [48] pp.
€ 1,500
Reissue of the revised and enlarged third edition of Tabula smaragdina, compiled by the physician Phillip Fraundorffer (ca. 1650-1702). "The book is a collection of 800 recipes taken from no less than 224 various authors" (Hagelin). It contains two prefaces, one by Fraundorffer himself and one by the reviser Johann Abraham Mercklin (1674-1720), followed by a reference list of all physicians mentioned in the text, and an extensive index.
Binding chafed, spine damaged and cracked at front hinge. Foxing and a large water stain throughout (covering about 30% of the page). A fair copy. Blake, p. 160; Hagelin, Books on materia medica, p. 145; VD18 12226769.
Related Subjects: