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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 57

COELSON (LANCELOT)
The Poor-mans Physician and Chyrurgion Inlarged... the Second Edition..., 1663

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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COELSON (LANCELOT)

The Poor-mans Physician and Chyrurgion Inlarged. Wherein Neer Four Hundred Rare and Choice Receipts for the Cure of All Distempers in the Body of Man... the Second Edition. To Which is Added a Usefull Treatise of Combustions and Burnings All for the Publique Good, lacks ?7 leaves (?blank A1, G2, H8, K7 and all after M4, see footnote), title and opening few leaves frayed at lower fore-corner (just touching imprint and date on title), several gatherings/pages loose, contemporary sheep, worn with loss to spine, covers near detached, small 8vo, A.M. for Simon Miller, 1663

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AN UNRECORDED EDITION OF A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VOLUME OF MEDICAL RECIPES - AND THE ONLY APPEARANCE OF A SECOND PART NOT FOUND IN THE FIRST EDITION, with "derections for purging, rules for opening a viene, bleeding with horse-leeches, and drawing teeth". First published in 1656, "containing above three hundred rare and choice receipts", this enlarged edition was issued by the same publisher with "neer four hundred... receipts". It includes a dedicatory epistle to Sir Harbottle Grimstone dated 25 March 1662, the author giving his address as "at the sign of the Royall Oake in Cherry-garden Street in Redriff".

The second part (pp.152-170) is a translation by the author and "F.C." of Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus's De Combustionibus, an earlier translation of which, by the surgeon John Steer, had been published in 1642. Our book ends on p.170 (M5), with the words "Farewell. L.C.", and a large catchword "A" suggesting that it may lack three or more leaves at the end. We can find no trace of this edition on ESTC, WorldCat, in auction records or in the standard medical bibliographies.

Provenance: Mrs Mabel Shelley, letter to her dated 1957 loosely inserted; thence by descent to the present owner.

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