May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DIGBY, KENELM, Sir. Chymical Secrets, and Rare Experiments in Physick & Philosophy. 4 engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. [16], 272 pages. Small 8vo, disbound; some soiling, most noticeably on title and last page. London: Will. Cooper, 1683

Additional Details

first edition, first issue, of the last of 3 posthumous collections of recipes by or ascribed to Digby. Duveen, page 173; Rubin 130; Wing D1426.