Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

207 ● CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, The London Dispensatory. [24], 305, [35] pages. 8vo, 179x114 mm, contemporary panelled sheep, vertical crack in spine, ends chipped, joints and hinges reinforced, cover corners worn through, small piece of leather missing from bottom of front cover; margins trimmed close just entering text on preliminaries A2-3 and on pages 246 and 262 but otherwise affecting only some headlines or catchwords, contents toned with scattered foxing and ink spots, varying marginal soiling, rust hole in G4 touching a few letters, dampstaining in lower margins toward end. Signatures of WiliamWhipple dated 1750 and James Simpson dated 1777. Boston: John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1720 [6,000/9,000] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the first London pharmacopoeia, originally published in 1650.“This 1720 Boston edition . . . enjoys the triple distinction of being the first herbal, the first pharmacopoeia, and the first full-length medical book published in the American colonies”—Norman 542. Austin 591; Garrison-Morton 1828.2; Guerra a-48.