Every Man his own Doctor, Compleated with an Herbal: shewing, First, How every one may know his own Constitution and Complexion, by certain Signs. Also The Nature and Faculties of all Food as well Meats and Drinks, whereby every Man and Woman may understand what is good or hurtful to them. Treating also of Air, Passions of Mind, Exercise of Body, Sleep, The Use of Tobacco, a new hot Bath; Venery,, with an Infallible Secret to prevent the Pox. Or the Senses, proving Six in number. His Elixir Proprietatis, and its Use. The Second Part shews the full Knowledg [sic!] and Cure of the Pox, Running of the Reins, Gout, Dropsie, Scurvy, Consumptions and Obstructions: Agues. Shewing their Causes and Signs, Danger and Cure. The Second Edition, with Additions. viz. A Treatise of Melancholly and Disttraction, with Government in Cure. Also a Compendiuos Herbal, discovering the Physical Vertue of all Herba in this Kingdom, and what Planet rules each Herb, and how to gather them in their Planetary Hours. Written by John Archer …

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[Archer, John (fl. 1660-1684)].
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London, Printed for the Author, and are to be sold at his House …, 1673. 8:o. (16), 127, 143, (8) pp. Contemporary full leather (re-backed) with five marked bands, gilt title to spine. Some foxing occur. Title with a few short tears at outer margin. Part I: Page 18 misnumbered 17. Page 19 misnumbered 18. Part II: Page 36 misnumbered 24. Page 51/52 with some paper loss at the outer margin, probably already during papermaking. Page 58 misnumbered 57. Pages 59-64 misnumbered 78-83. Bookplate ‘Iohn Newdigate of the Inner Temple London Esqr. 1702’ mounted verso title. Bookplate ‘GOM’ inside front cover. From the library of Denis Leigh, with his name label on fly-leaf.

28 800 kr

Wing A3609. Arber's Term cat. I 130. In this copy the last two numerals of the title have been misprinted, one on the other. John Newdigate (1672/3-1705), matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1688. Admitted to Gray’s Inn 1687; barrister 1694. Admitted to the Inner Temple in 1702. No reference is made to books in his will, in which he bequeathed the bulk of his estate to his older brother, Richard (in due course 3rd bart.). The nature and the extent of his library are not yet established.

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