Lémery, Nicolas | Formulas and recipes chiefly for medical cures.

Lémery, Nicolas

Modern curiosities of art & nature. London: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower and James Partridge, 1685

12mo (156 x 95 mm). Title within double-ruled border, additional engraved title, abstract of contents before engraved title, 5-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end; paper flaw on contents leaf A6 costing a few letters, 3 discolored leaves in quire G, minor dampstaining in gutter of quires H–O. Contemporary calf; rebacked, front free endpaper torn away, extremities a trifle rubbed.

First English edition.

REFERENCE:

ESTC R12683; Wing L 1041

PROVENANCE:

Jo: Ramsden (ownership signature on letterpress title) — Edward and Cicely Hutchinson (bookplate by Stephen Godden dated 1928 on front pastedown)