Item #CAT000497 Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam. Or, A Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and heathfull life...Whereunto is added...A very necessary, and compendious Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe. With A Censure f the Medicinall faculties of the Water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the City of Bristoll. As Also An accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco. Venner Thomas.
Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam. Or, A Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and heathfull life...Whereunto is added...A very necessary, and compendious Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe. With A Censure f the Medicinall faculties of the Water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the City of Bristoll. As Also An accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco
Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam. Or, A Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and heathfull life...Whereunto is added...A very necessary, and compendious Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe. With A Censure f the Medicinall faculties of the Water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the City of Bristoll. As Also An accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco

Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam. Or, A Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and heathfull life...Whereunto is added...A very necessary, and compendious Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe. With A Censure f the Medicinall faculties of the Water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the City of Bristoll. As Also An accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco

London: James Flesher, 1650.

Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Item #CAT000497
ISBN: NoISBN

Contemporary blind ruled calf, well worn, inner joints cracked but binding sound if a bit loose. Endpapers rumpled, no pastedowns, title browned, mild browning and foxing and scattered marginal notes in an early hand, a few old paper repairs in the outer margin; still about good. (12), 417, (1)pp with a number of mispaginations, but complete. Bitting 476 (1638 ed.), Cagle 1042

A nice collection of both the popular Vita Recta (first published 1620) along with his Treatise on the baths of Bath and his Accurate Treatise Concerning Tobacco. Includes a very great deal of information on nutrition "eares are of hard digestion, and of very little nourishment", "Marrow is much more laudable than the braine", don't eat ducks, is it better to eat salted or unsalted food? Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Cooking, Wine & Dining. Inventory No: CAT000497.

Price: $750.00

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