Pharmacopoeia .- [Dubois (Jacques)], "Jacques Silvius". La Pharmacopee. Qui est la maniere de bien choisir & preparer les simples, & de bien faires les compositions, translated by André Caille, first edition in French, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, later ink signatures to title (some obliterated) and occasional marginalia and underlining, closely trimmed at head, some marginal water- and ink-staining (the latter to a lesser extent), some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with leather label, spine ends, lower joint and corners worn, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Lyon, Louis Cloquemin & Étienne Michel, 1574. *** Rare first edition in French. We can trace no copy at auction. Jacques Dubois or Sylvius (1478 -1555) was a Parisian Galenist physician and professor of anatomy, who taught Vesalius. The translator Caille (1515-1580) was a physician at Lyon.