Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699) Histoire Generale des Drogues. Folio, a4, [pi]1, A-Z4, Aa-Ff4, **Gg-**Kk4, Gg-Pp4, A-Z4, Aa-Ee4, Ff-Oo2, illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece and profusely throughout with text engravings of plants and animals with medicinal properties, including edible plants, flowers, herbs, spices, seaweeds, fruit, coffee, tea, opium, and more, including several half-page text engravings that illustrate the processing of such products as sugar, indigo, tobacco, and silk, ancient Egyptian embalming, and other subjects including whales, unicorns, birds, and many others, title page printed in black and red, half-title present; bound in contemporary full leather, amateurishly rebacked, some signatures sprung at the back, staining to gutter margin, short tears to text leaves occasionally throughout; a good candidate for restoration, 15 x 9 3/4 in. - Paris: Loyson & Pillon et au Palais: Estienne Ducastin, 1694.