Byfield, Timothy

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 USD

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Description

The Artificial Spaw, or, Mineral-Waters To Drink Imitating the German Spaw-Water in Its Delightful and Medicinal Operations on Humane Bodies, & c. London: Printed by James Rawlins for the Author, 1684
paper, ink, leather

12mo (5 1/4 x 3 in.; 133 x 76 mm). Title within ruled border; last few leaves a little soiled, lacks final blank, imprint date altered in ink to read "1686." Nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered gilt; spine defective.

Literature

Wing B6396; ESTC R24245; Krivatsy 1983

Catalogue Note

First and only edition endorsing fortified waters. Byfield's address, provided at the end of the dedication ("New Street by Fetter-Lane near Five Bells"), is the same location where bottled waters were available for sale.