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A compleat history of druggs

2 volumes (cont. pag.) in 1, 86 plates ; (4to) · Translation, with omissions, of the author's Histoire générale des drogues. Pomet acknowledged that much of his material was supplied by Tournefort and other friends. The anonymous translator and editor has drawn upon the works of Tournefort and Lémery when their descriptions have appeared more accurate and concise than those of Pomet, and has added to Pomet's description and history of each drug that of Lémery, as extracted from his Traité universel des drogues simples. cf. Dedication and pref · "Names of the authors quoted in this work": 7th-10th prelim. leaves

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