Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Boorde, Andrew (1490?-1549)
The Breviarie of Health.

London: Imprinted by Thomas East, 1575.

Quarto, two parts in one volume with divisional title to second part, printed in black letter; lacking two text leaves: 76 & 77 [K4 & K5]; lacking Q8 ?blank; title page repaired; stamps to both titles; extensive near-contemporary notes on verso of title and last leaf of text consisting of pharmaceutical recipes; leaf 20 [C4] torn completely in half vertically and pasted back together, other small tears and losses; bound in modern half leather; this copy sold in these rooms in 1980; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 3376; ESTC S106527 listing seven copies in U.S. libraries.

From Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection.