JAMES, Robert. A Medicinal Dictionary; including Physic, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry and Botany ... Together with a history of drugs, London: for T. Osborne by J. Roberts, 1743-45, 3 volumes, 2° (399 x 259mm.), FIRST EDITION, 63 engraved plates on 36 leaves (small wormholes to lower margin of some leaves in vols. II-III, clean tear to 3I2 in vol. II affecting 2 lines of text, severe but clean tear through L+1 in vol. III, occasional light browning), contemporary panelled calf (extremities worn). [Blake p. 233; Courtney & Smith p. 13; GM 6799; Wellcome III, p. 343]

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JAMES, Robert. A Medicinal Dictionary; including Physic, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry and Botany ... Together with a history of drugs, London: for T. Osborne by J. Roberts, 1743-45, 3 volumes, 2° (399 x 259mm.), FIRST EDITION, 63 engraved plates on 36 leaves (small wormholes to lower margin of some leaves in vols. II-III, clean tear to 3I2 in vol. II affecting 2 lines of text, severe but clean tear through L+1 in vol. III, occasional light browning), contemporary panelled calf (extremities worn). [Blake p. 233; Courtney & Smith p. 13; GM 6799; Wellcome III, p. 343]

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GM: "The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the early 19th century. Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication and some of the articles. This was Johnson's first venture into lexicography, and when he was done, a syndicate of booksellers asked him to write his famous dicitionary."

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