Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TRYON, THOMAS. The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness; or, A Discourse of Temperance. [16], 456 [i. e., 464], 24 pages. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, spine badly worn, front cover detached, with first gathering adhered; some marginal soiling and dampstaining, lower outer corner off 2E7 affecting catchword on recto. London: to be sold by most Booksellers, 1697

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Third edition, first issue, of a work first published in 1690 advocating vegetarianism and ascetic living in general as the way to health and God. Alden 697/182; Cagle 1031; Krivatsy 11996; Wing T3202.