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DIGBY, KENELM, Sir. Discours . . . Touchant la Guerison des Playes par la Poudre de Sympathie. 195, [2] pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, front joint chipped at top and bottom, short crack at bottom of rear joint, slight wear to cover corners; title reinforced in gutter, small hole in E4 affecting a few letters, portion of type inadequately inked on page 144 with text faint but legible, minor worming in blank lower inner corner of last few leaves. Mogens Tvede bookplate. Paris: Augustin Courbé & Pierre Moet, 1658
first edition of Digby's account of the so-called powder of sympathy, a remedy applied to the object causing a wound rather than to the wound itself, which then supposedly healed through sympathetic attraction. The book discusses numerous examples of sympathetic influence in nature, including the putrification of a grafted nose following the donor's death. DSB IV, 95; Gnudi & Webster, page 292; Krivatsy 3241; Rubin 47; Thorndike VII, 503-05. See also lot 264.
