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TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND KENT


The Collection of the Late John Symons (1943-2009), Librarian at the Wellcome Library 1968-2005, collector and Tunbridge Wells resident during his childhood
Lot 116

ROWZEE (LODOWICK)
The Queenes Welles. That is, a Treatise of the Nature and Vertues of Tunbridge Water. Together, with an Enumeration of the Chiefest Diseases, which it is good for... and the Manner and Order of Taking it. By Lodwick Rowzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent, FIRST EDITION, John Dawson, 1632

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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ROWZEE (LODOWICK)

The Queenes Welles. That is, a Treatise of the Nature and Vertues of Tunbridge Water. Together, with an Enumeration of the Chiefest Diseases, which it is good for... and the Manner and Order of Taking it. By Lodwick Rowzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent, FIRST EDITION, woodcut head-pieces and initials, some soiling, repairs to corners of first and last few leaves (with loss of letter S in 'Queenes' on title), stitched in a contemporary limp vellum manuscript (indenture with text on inside covers), soiled, preserved in linen solander box [ESTC S116278], small 8vo, John Dawson, 1632

Footnotes

RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROWZEE'S BOOK ON THE CURATIVE POWERS OF MINERAL WATER AND THE CHALYBEATE SPRING. "The water helpeth also the running of the reines, whether it be Gonorrhea simplex or Venria, ... In the behalf of women... there is nothing better against barrennesse, and to make them fruitful". It was to honour the six-month visit of Queen Henrietta Maria in 1629 that Rowzee coined the name 'The Queenes Wells', for "Like the spa waters in Belgium, Tunbridge waters were credited with special efficacy in matters gynaecological, which is exactly why the Queen's doctors could direct here for treatment to an obscure and uninhabited place where her only accommodation would be a tent" (J.G.C.M Fuller, 'Chalybeate Springs at Tunbridge wells' in 200 Years of British Hydrogeology, edited by J.D. Mather, Geological Society, 2004).

Provenance: 'G.O.M.', small collector's label on front pastedown.

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