[Pharmacopoeia. Duchesne] Traicté Familier de l'Exacte Préparation Spagyrique

des médicamens pris d'entre les mineraux, animaux et vegetaux. Avec une breve response au livret de Iaques Aubert, touchant la generation et les causes des metaux. Par Joseph du Chesne [Quercetanus], sieur de la Violette, conseiller & medecin du Roy. Paris, Ch. Morel, 1630 [erroneously corrected to 1680 in ink], 152,(16) p., contemporary leather with ribbed and gilt back, small 8vo.

Good copy, partly waterstained and partly trifle tanned. Rare French edition of a work originally published in 1575, under the title De excuisita mineralium, animalium et vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica preparatione et usu, perspicua tractatio. Josephus Quercetanus (or Duchesne or Chesne) (c. 1544-1609), follower of Paracelsus and personal doctor to Henry IV and due to a number of controversies and questionable qualities one of the most famous surgeons of Paris.