Beschrijving
Basileae, Sumptibus & Literis Joh. Rod. Im-Hof & Filii, 1771, Folio, half parchment binding with parchement over the spine and the corners, with marbled paper (kievitsmarmer), titleplate on spine, red sprinkled edges, two parts plus syllabus in one binding, 13+28+[2]+212+384+54 pp., with engraved frontispiece (I.G. Sturm, sc. Norbrg.), some browning and foxing. Binding shows some imperfections, with a small tear in the parchement on the spine, and some wear to the front, back and corners. The construction is intact, good copy.
With a bookplate of the Bohemian Jewish pharmacologist Emil Starkenstein (1884-1942), killed in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. He was one of the most important (experimental) pharmacologists at the time, pioneer of clinical pharmacology, and owner of one of the most impressive libraries in the field ever assembled. It was sold before the war to Ludwig Gottschalk, who hid the books and vanished himself. After the war, he reassembled the Starkenstein books and sold books from it for decades. Blake, p. 350.
The first and only edition of the first official Swiss phamacopoeia, authorized by the Basel College of Physicians, its title very much alike the Wittenberg pharmacopeia, of which the 5th edition appeared in Stuttgart in the same year as our work.
Scarce. Found in 1 Dutch library (Utrecht) and a few foreign libraries.
