Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Medicinal Experiments or a Collection of Choice and Safe Remedies, for the Most Part Simple and Easily Prepared.

London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Jo. Taylor, 1703.

Fourth edition, 12mo, engraved portrait frontispiece, six leaves of bookseller's ads after the text, text contains dozens of remedies for everything from madness, gout, asthma, baldness, and gonorrhea, to small pox, dysentery, vertigo, and sore throat; bound in later full calf, slightly rubbed, 6 x 3 1/2 in.

ESTC N10762; Fulton 183 (suspecting authenticity of part three "earmarks of a forgery").

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.