BARROUGH, PHILIP. FL.1590.
The Method of Physick, contaning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of inward Diseases in Mans Body. London: Richard Field, 1624.
The Method of Physick, contaning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of inward Diseases in Mans Body. London: Richard Field, 1624.
8vo (192 x 137 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page, woodcut initials. Rebacked retaining contemporary speckled calf covers. Corners bumped, chipping to endpapers and title, library stamps on title and some other pages, scattered dampstaining, mostly to upper quarter of leaves, ink ownership notation, browning.
Provenance: Joseph Hill Hunt, M.D./Medical Society of the County of Kings (stamp on front free endpaper; bookplate).
Sixth edition of this comprehensive medical handbook of the Shakespearean era. It first appeared in 1583 and was printed in at least 7 editions through 1652. ESTC 1514; Wellcome I, 686.
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The Method of Physick, contaning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of inward Diseases in Mans Body. London: Richard Field, 1624.
The Method of Physick, contaning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of inward Diseases in Mans Body. London: Richard Field, 1624.
8vo (192 x 137 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page, woodcut initials. Rebacked retaining contemporary speckled calf covers. Corners bumped, chipping to endpapers and title, library stamps on title and some other pages, scattered dampstaining, mostly to upper quarter of leaves, ink ownership notation, browning.
Provenance: Joseph Hill Hunt, M.D./Medical Society of the County of Kings (stamp on front free endpaper; bookplate).
Sixth edition of this comprehensive medical handbook of the Shakespearean era. It first appeared in 1583 and was printed in at least 7 editions through 1652. ESTC 1514; Wellcome I, 686.
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