1606 English ELIZABETHAN MEDICINE REMEDIES RECIPES * Rare Early Physick

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A Right profitable Booke for all difeafes, called The Path- way to Health. Wherein are to bee found moft excellent and approued Medicines of great vertue: as alfo notable potions and drinkes: and for the diftilling of diuers precious waters and making of Oyles, & other com- fortable receits for the health of the bodie, neuer before imprinted. Firft gathered by Peter Leuens , Mafter of Art of Oxford, and Student in Phificke and Surgery, and now newly correc-ted and augmented. LONDON. Printed by Iohn Windet for Edward White , and are to be folde at the little North dore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gunne, 1608. [Fourth edition.] Modern half calf, title page heavily browned and laid down with loss to right corner and upper edge with loss to decorative border, lower section torn with loss of border and last line of imprint, browning following few leaves and with repairs to corners. A quarto volume, it measures approximately 18cm (7�") x 14.5cm (5�") x 2cm (�"). Foliation ff. [2], 106, 108, 108, 110, 110, 111-114, [1 (of 3) index], lacks 2 final index leaves supplied in manuscript, probably eighteenth centry. [STC, 15533.7; Krivatsy 6929, and Wellcome I, 3764 both cite the later 1632 edition].� � Peter Levens was an Elizabethan lexicographer and medical writer. He was born 'at or near Eske in Yorkshire,' and proceeded to Oxford read more

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