The Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick; Fully Discovered: In Four Books
by Tanner, John
Price: $2,000.00
- Bookseller: Dawson's Book Shop
- Seller Inventory #: WAS38595
- Book condition: Good: covers worn; front hinge loose but holding, title-page soiled and with loss along gutter, occasional foxing and browning
- Place: George Sawbridge, London
- Date published: 1659
Book Description
George Sawbridge, London, 1659. Good: covers worn; front hinge loose but holding, title-page soiled and with loss along gutter, occasional foxing and browning. 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches, [16], 543, [36] pages, contemporary calf, Second edition, the first was printed in 1656. Woodcut headpieces. Scattered marginalia in a contemporary hand. Recent bookplate on pastedown. This pocket manual for the layman is a kind of encyclopedia of seventeenth-century remedies. Tanner proffers fairly solid medical information, including a primer on anatomy, as well as strange preparations and cures. Scarce: OCLC lists 7 copies.
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