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Pharmacopoea Taurinensis, nunc primum edita jussu Augustissimi Regis

Pharmacopoea Taurinensis, nunc primum edita jussu Augustissimi Regis by Chais, Giovanni Battista (publisher); Giuseppe Bartolomeo Tasniere (engraver)

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Pharmacopoea Taurinensis, nunc primum edita jussu Augustissimi Regis
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Chais, Giovanni Battista (publisher); Giuseppe Bartolomeo Tasniere (engraver)
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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Torino; Turin: Augustae Taurinorum, Apud J.-B. [Jean-Baptiste] Chais, 1736. Quarto (24 x 18.5 cm.), [8], 246, [18] pages. Signatures π A-2H . Illustrated with two large folding engraved plates; woodcut printer’s device and two engraved woodcut initials with architectural scenes. FIRST EDITION. A pharmacopoeia, prepared by doctors at Turin’s medical college at the order of Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy. Its first section comprises a list of all substances generally used in the preparation of medicines, with synonyms and notes to aid the user in distinguishing between plants which look similar, which the authors ‘deemed extremely useful for younger apothecaries’. The second section contains recipes for simple and compound medicines, including potions, infusions, decoctions, syrups, powders, lozenges, tablets, spirits, salts, tinctures, precipitates, oils, ointments and plasters. Some of these, the authors claim, ‘depart somewhat from the common method of preparation’. It notably features the first appearance of the recipe for vinum absinthites (wormwood wine), which fifty years later in 1786 formed the basis of Antonio Benedetto Carpano’s first commercial recipe for Vermouth. In the seventeenth century wormwood was considered an effective remedy for treating the plague. The Pharmacopoea does not detail which ailments ought to be treated with which concoction, only the method and equipment for preparing them and the precise quantities of ingredients required. The two large folding plates by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Tasniere show alembics for distillation, one of spiritus sulphuris (the acid spirit obtained from sulphur), the other of spiritus vini alcoholisatus (absolute alcohol), with different parts of the apparatus labeled. The second of these is rarely found intact. First and last leaves lightly browned, tear restored with no loss to second plate; a very good, crisp copy, bound in contemporary full vellum, rubbed at corners, joints strengthened. [OCLC locates fifteen copies; Wellcome 14301925].
The Statutes at Large...from October, 1877, to March, 1879. Vol. XX

The Statutes at Large...from October, 1877, to March, 1879. Vol. XX by United States

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The Statutes at Large...from October, 1877, to March, 1879. Vol. XX
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United States
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1879. [United States]. The Statutes at Large of the United States of America from October, 1877, To March, 1879, And Recent Treaties, Postal Conventions, and Executive Proclamations. Volume XX. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879. xxiv, 955 pp. Folio (11-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary law calf, raised bands, lettering pieces, blind stamped fillets to boards. Moderate shelfwear, scuffs to boards and edges, rear hinge starting, front board partially detached but holding, internally clean. $150. * With index. This volume contains several acts relating to Reconstruction and the western territories and states.
7" x 9" Black-and-White Press Portrait Photograph of Taft

7" x 9" Black-and-White Press Portrait Photograph of Taft by Taft, William Howard

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7" x 9" Black-and-White Press Portrait Photograph of Taft
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Taft, William Howard
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1933. Chief Justice Taft on Vacation Taft, William Howard [1857-1930]. [7" x 9" Black-and-White Press Photograph of Taft]. [New York: Acme Newspictures, August 10, 1929]. Light edgewear, upper corning lacking just above image, annotations, stamps and tipped-in caption to verso. $125. * The caption reads (in part): "CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT AT HIS CANADIAN SUMMER HOME. William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, pictured at his summer home at Murray Bay, Quebec, where Mr. Taft for some years has been spending his summers.
CONDENSED SPEECH OF HON. LINN BOYD, OF KENTUCKY, IN REPLY TO THE HON. JOHN WHITE, RELATIVE TO THE COALITION BETWEEN ADAMS AND CLAY IN 1825

CONDENSED SPEECH OF HON. LINN BOYD, OF KENTUCKY, IN REPLY TO THE HON. JOHN WHITE, RELATIVE TO THE COALITION BETWEEN ADAMS AND CLAY IN 1825 by Boyd, Linn

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CONDENSED SPEECH OF HON. LINN BOYD, OF KENTUCKY, IN REPLY TO THE HON. JOHN WHITE, RELATIVE TO THE COALITION BETWEEN ADAMS AND CLAY IN 1825
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Boyd, Linn
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[Washington: J. Heart, Printer, 1844. 16pp, disbound, caption title [as issued]. Scattered foxing, Good+. The 1844 presidential election pitted the Whig Henry Clay against the Democrat James K. Polk. It revived old resentments from twenty years earlier when, in the four-way presidential contest decided in the House of Representatives, supporters of Andrew Jackson charged that John Q. Adams decided "to buy the Presidency, by offering the office of Secretary of State to Mr. Clay." Clay threw his votes to Adams, and Adams so appointed him. The Democrat Boyd, an old antagonist of Clay, speaking on April 30 1844, presents detailed evidence of this "corrupt bargain." Boyd served in Congress during the 1840's and 1850's, and was Speaker of the House from 1851-1855. AI 44-929 [2]. OCLC 26488439 [3- Harvard, Duke, U VA], Huntington] as of January 2021. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, Miles, Coleman.
Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Life & Times
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Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Life & Times

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Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Life & Times
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
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Pleasantville, New York/montreal: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0895779870 . An edition in Fine condition in a Near Fine dust-jacket that is slightly shelfworn ; 4to; 416 pages .

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