Pharmacopoeia Bateana, in qua octingenta circiter pharmaca, pleráque omnia è Praxi Georgii Batei …London, Samuel Smith, 1688. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.

[12], 130, 12, [2], 16 pp.The first edition of the famous and influential Pharmacopoeia Bateana a nationally as well as internationally authoritative pharmacology consisting of the medical recipes and prescriptions collected by the British physician George Bate (1608-1668). Bate had been personal physician to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and Charles II, had been one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society and had published several medical and political articles and books including two volumes of Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia. He had been so highly regarded that his papers were collected and published 19 years after his death by James Shipton as Bate’s Dispensatory (title of the English translation, published in the same year). The book, generally known as the Pharmacopoeia Bateana lived to see many editions in Latin, as well as in English and Dutch and was used as a book of reference until the end of the 18th century. It contains recipe's, their names, compositions, preparations, virtues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chirurgery.Several other pharmacological texts are included: (1) "Orthotonia medicorum observata", on the right spelling of ingredients, in alphabetical order, and (2) the "Tabula Posologica", a table for regulation the doses of different medicines.With the bookplate of E. Grendel on the first endpaper. Some smalls stains on the boards, binding slightly rubbed, otherwise in good condition.l Hirsch II, p. 780.