Author: ELZEVIER, Korn.
Title: Lexicon galeno-chymico-pharmaceuticum, of Apothekers Woordenboek. Vervattende de voorschriften der samengestelde geneesmiddelen, die in alle bekende dispensatorien worden gevonden. Uit alle, zoo oude als nieuwe Artsenyboeken, by een gebragt, met elkander vergeleken, en verrykt met aenmerkingen, rakende de bekwaemste, kortste en krachtigste wyze van Bereiding, en de hoeveelheid der Gifte; Door Kornelis Elzevier. Eerste [- Tweede] Deel.
Description: Amsteldam, By de wed. S. Schouten & Zoon, en Gerrit de Groot, Boekverkoopers, 1755. 4to. in 2 vols. Titles printed in red and black. W. engr. front. titlepage ['J.C.Philips inve. et fecit, 1754'] Very good contemp. full marbled clf., spines in 6 compartments, elaborately gilttooled (somewhat fading). Original titleshields. [n4, **4, ***3, A-6Z4, 7A4 (7A2,3,4 blank); n2, A-6F4, X2]. (XXII, 1105, I (blank), VI (blank) pp.; IV, 966, IV (blank) pp.). (Text a few spots, nothing serious.). (loosely inserted a letter by Mr Zuidema, dated Haarlem 1925, requesting information on Kornelis Elzevier. In pencil 'Brief aan vd Wielen',). First edition of this massive 2000 page dictionary of every possible pharmaceutical compound, with annotations on the best and quickest method of preparation, use and effectiveness. A very good copy on good quality paper. A highly interesting engraved frontispiece depicting the interior of a pharmacy in which allegorically Dilligence, Truth & Experience get the better over Superstition and Stupidity. Scattered over the floor books by Dodonaeus, Boerhaave, Ray. Looking down from above are Paracelsus, Hippocrates and Galenus. Blake, p. 134: BMN vol. I, p. 375: Wellcome II, 522: Stoeder 240 - 245: 'Deze schrijver - geb. in 1700 - was tevens verdienstelijk dichter en letterkundige. Het werk is samengesteld uit velerlei bronnen als het Antidotarium Weckeri, Romanum; het Armentarium Med. Chym. Mynzichti enz. enz." : NNBW: VIII, c. 468 - 470: according to NNBW born in Rotterdam 1717, Kornelis Elzevier was a man with a poet's heart and quite a literary figure. Biographically speaking Elzevier is a difficult man to trace, as was the case in the 18th c. The namelists of the apothecary's Guild in Amsterdam in the 18th c. does not mention Elzevier, although his second unchanged reprint of the Lexicon [1790] printed there mentions 'Apotheker en Chymist te Amsterdam'. A request from the Gouda Apothecaries in 1750 to form a Guild does not mention Elzevier. Stoeder in his history of pharmacy in the Netherlands praises the work of Elzevier and says that among the pharmaceutical literature available in the 18th c. Elzevier's 'Lexikon' deserves to be mentioned as an original and worthwhile publication.: Elzevier dies November 1768 in the proveniershuis at Haarlem. See also Van der Aa [rep[rint B.M.Israel 1969], vol. II, E, p. 37:

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