Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DIGBY, KENELM, Sir. Choice and Experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, as also Cordial and Distilled Waters and Spirits, Perfumes, and other Curiosities. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Digby. [6] (of [8]), 308, [12] pages; lacks the longitudinal half-title. Small 8vo, old leather, spine worn, minor worming on covers, recased, endpapers renewed; contents toned, discreet marginal restoration on a few leaves, some soiling on portrait and title. London: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by H. Brome, 1668

Additional Details

first edition of the first of 3 posthumous collections of medical, chemical, and culinary receipts by or ascribed to Digby; first issue, second state of title. Rubin 101.