A Compleat history of drugs
By: written in French by Monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the present French King to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts: illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts curiously done from the life; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth, and countries from whence they are brought; the way to know the true from the false, their virtues, &c. A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals
Contributors: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708; Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715; Bonwicke, R. (Rebecca), active 1706-1711, bookseller
Publisher: Printed for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe, Matthew Wotton, S. Manship, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Rich. Parker, and Ralph Smith
Published: 1712
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Drugs; Early works to 1800; Medical Botany; Medical Zoology; Materia medica
Work titles: Histoire générale des drogues
Notes: First ed. of the first English translation (cf. Johnston).

Paged continuously.

Vol. 2 has separate t.p.

Illustrations apparently copied from the French ed. but reproduced 4 to a leaf.

Title pages in red and black; titles in double line borders.

Publishers' advertisements on b⁴ verso and 2F².

Includes index.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T113762

Hunt botanical cat., 428

Johnston, S.H. Cleveland collections, 328

In English, translated from French.