Lot no. 114
POMET (Pierre). HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES DROGUES, traiterant des plantes, des animaux, & des minéraux. Enriched with more than four hundred intaglio figures drawn after nature...
Paris, au Palais, chez Jean-Baptiste Loyson & Auguste Pillon, 1694.
3 parts of [12]-232- 32 (in roman numerals)-108-116-(233-304)-[32] pages bound in 1 vol. in-folio, light-coloured basane, spine ribbed and decorated (contemporary binding).
First edition illustrated with nearly 400 engravings in the text showing plants and animals, as well as scenes related to the manufacture of rubber, the preparation of tobacco, the processing of sugar cane or whale fishing, etc. Pages 233 to 304 are bound at the end. The frontispiece is missing, the binding damaged.
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