CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich. Matière médicale traduite du latin. 1755.
CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich.
Matière médicale traduite du latin.
Paris, Briasson, 1755.
4 volumes 12mo (170x105 mm), (8)-xii-80-110-(2)-108-44 pages and one folding table / (4)-36-78-(2)-36-78-(2)-36-62-(2)-176 pages / (2)-387 pages / (2)-384 pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces. Silghtly rubbed, tail corners bumped. Llittle loss of leather on the second cover on volume IV and, tail corner on volume II. Fresh copy.
First french edition.
"Professor of medicine, botany, and pharmacology at Frankfurt, Cartheuser wrote widely in the fields of chemistry, botany, pharmacology, pathology, and therapeutics. This work on the fundamentals of the materia medica was first published in 1749 at Frankfurt an der Oder. A popular work, it went through a number of Latin editions (this being the first one published in Venice) and was later translated into French." (Heirs of Hippocrates).
references: Heirs of Hippocrates [869 (ed latin. 1755 : "Professor of medicine, botany, and pharmacology at Frankfurt, Cartheuser wrote widely in the fields of chemistry, botany, pharmacology, pathology, and therapeutics. This work on the fundamentals of the materia medica was first published in 1749 at Frankfurt an der Oder. A popular work, it went through a number of Latin editions (this being the first one published in Venice) and was later translated into French."].
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