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[46], 576 pp. With portrait. Lacking engraved additional title page. (Small 8vo) early full calf, spine gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Thorndike notes that Planis Campy authored works on phlebotomy, musket-wounds, the plague, and pharmaco-chemical remedies. He was also said to have opened a school of “transmutatory metallic philosophy” in Paris. Thorndike VII, pp. 188-89. “De Planis Campy’s name seems to have disappeared from the history of pharmacy and medicine, yet he was councillor and surgeon in ordinary to Louis XIV.”--Ferguson I, pp. 204-205 noting two copies in the Young Collection, one wanting the engraved title, the other wanting the portrait. Wellcome 5078. Durling 9060, (the NLM copy lacks both the engraved title and the portrait). Not in Duveen or Partington and not mentioned by either Garrison or Castiglione." Rare.