Floyer, John, Sir. Pharmako-basanos, or, The touch-stone of medicines : discovering the vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals, by their tastes & smells : in two volumes

Folger bibliographic ID: 345632
ESTC number: R177141
Wing number: F1388
Folger call number: 269- 445q
Folger holdings ID: 496432
Accession Number: 269445

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

The first two words are in Greek characters The words "vegetables, minerals, & animals," are bracketed together on title page With a preliminary imprimatur leaf and a final leaf of advertisement With a divisional title page ("Pharmako-basanos: or, The touch-stone of medicines. Vol. I. Containing three parts ... "), lacking imprint, bound after general title page Volume one only; at the foot of the divisional title page: "The second volume will be publisht next Michaelmas-Term"; the next volume was in fact not published until Michaelmas term in 1690. Cf. Arber, E., The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, vol. 2, pp. 334-335 Signatures: A⁸ (a)⁶ B-X⁸ 2A² Errata: leaf 2A1 verso

Item information about Folger 269- 445q

Imperfect: wanting the imprimatur and title leaves. Small hole on D1 with slight loss. A small section torn off of leaf I1, affixed to recto with metal straight pin. Autographs: in 17th-century hands: "John Carre his Booke"; "Ex Dono Caroli Baldwyne"; p. 124 in a later hand: "James Shattock [h]is book, 1824 Bristol more fields." Copiously marked throughout in an early hand with manicules, stars, underlining, and annotations; some shaved from close trimming. Torn slip with additional recipes in early hand laid in between pages 156-157. In early leather inboard binding, recased and endpapers renewed. Acquired from Byass Rare Books, 2015-09-11

Uniform title: Pharmako-basanos. Vol. 1
Extended title: Pharmako-basanos, or, The touch-stone of medicines : discovering the vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals, by their tastes & smells : in two volumes / by Sir John Floyer, of the city of Litchfield, kt., M.D. of Queens-College, Oxford
Alternate titles: Touch-stone of medicines

Medicine Medicinal plants Plants Materia medica

author: Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734
bookseller: Johnson, Michael, 1656-1731
bookseller: Clavell, Robert, -1711
former owner: Baldwyne, Carolus, active 17th century
former owner: Carre, John, active 17th century
former owner: Shattuck, James, active 19th century