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Zustand: New. KlappentextPanacea Or The Universal Medicine: Being A Discovery Of The Wonderful Virtues Of Tobacco Taken In A Pipe (1659) is a book written by Giles Everard. The book presents a unique perspective on the medicinal properties of tobacco,.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

plate: 154x123 mm. Margin: 246x155 mm. Damp stain in top left corner, light soiling, faint foxing.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine, scarce engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. Portrait of Dr Giles Everard in his study, smoking a very long-stemmed pipe. He was the author of a work entitled 'Panacea or a Universal Medicine, being a discovery of the wonderful virtues of Tobacco', published in 1659. Impressed library stamp to top corner of portrait - print was part of a collection legally disposed of by the library in question.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

0. Selten. - Späterer Abzug von der Originalplatte, unten etwas fleckig. - Vgl. Wellcome Portraitkatalog Nr. 923. - Vgl. (zur Bedeutung des Buches) Rainer Immensack: Bibliographie als Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Tabakliteratur von 1579 - 1995, Nr. 1219. Sprache: Deutschu.

First edition (a variant with 246 pages in the second part was published in the same year by the same publisher; no priority has been established). In 17th-century limp vellum. Title lettered in ink on spine. Occasional annotations and underlines by a 17th-century hand in ink. 78 [=98] [4]; 234 pp. The first book devoted entirely to tobacco. "This little work, produced by a physician who is said to have practiced with distinction in Antwerp, appears to have been the first published entirely devoted to the subject of tobacco . a neat compendium of much of the information then available. It was, consequently, popular." (Arents) De herba panacea concerns with the beneficial medicinal properties of tobacco, and describes most of what was then known of this New World plant including its origin, native methods of curing and cultivation, and lore surrounding tobacco. Everard gives numerous recipes, depending on tobacco, for ailments to all kinds of illnesses. The book also contains texts by Castore Durante, Gérard van Bergen, Galen, Jean de Jonghe, and Andrés de Laguna. The book was included in the John Carter Brown Library's 1974-published Rare Americana list (A Selection of One Hundred & One Books, Maps, & Prints not in The John Carter Brown Library). Ref.: Sabin 23218; Adams E1150; Alden 587/15; Arents 32; Books not in JCB 21. Binding restored, new endpapers and thongs. Pages restored throughout, heavily in the first third, at some places affecting the text, few leaves over trimmed. Overall in very good condition. In 17th-century limp vellum. Title lettered in ink on spine. Occasional annotations and underlines by a 17th-century hand in ink First edition (a variant with 246 pages in the second part was published in the same year by the same publisher; no priority has been established).