Guide chalybeate spring thetford (10 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. First edition. A scarce and fascinating guide to the medicinal spring in the market town of Thetford, Norfolk, in its original binding with two folding plates. A first edition of this work by Fredrick Accum. Bound in the original publisher"s quarter leather with illustrated, paper covered boards. Illustrated with two folding plates; a folded aquatint frontispiece, loosely inserted to the title page and another steel engraving firmly bound. Collated, complete. A brilliant guide to the mineral spring at Thetford, including chapters on the ancient history of the Norfolk market town, local amenities such as the post office and available lodgings, instructions on how to take the waters and dated testimonies from local doctors. Chalybeate springs are natural waters containing significant levels of iron salts. They were popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for curing diseases and numerous ailments. The chalybeate spring and Royal Tunbridge Wells is perhaps the most well known. This edition with a publisher"s advertisement page to the rear. Bound in the original publisher"s quarter leather with illustrated, paper covered boards. Externally, worn. With loss to the paper at the upper front board and lesser loss to upper rear joint. Loss to leather at upper and lower spine, cracked at joints but holding firm. Hinge straining at boards but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound with the frontispiece plate loosely inserted. Pages bright and clean with scattered spotting, heaviest frontispiece. Mild age toning to title page and fore edges. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

First Edition. in the original pink boards, a little dusty, front joint cracked but cords just holding, extremities bumped, plain unlettered spine with some surface abrasion, the front board lettered in white within a decorative stencilled floral border, the lower cover also stencilled with white floral border and central urn design, with the later heraldic bookplate of Henry S. Marsham and the inscription ?Henry S. Marsham, from James Lee Warner, Aug. 1905? 12mo (186 x 110 mm), hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, folding, and pp. [xiv], 159, [1], with a second folding aquatint plate, uncoloured, uncut throughout, frontispiece detached, A delightful work, uncut in its original pink and white lithographed covers, with a beautiful folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece. This scarce work on spa baths in Thetford was written by Frederick Accum, a London chemist and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. It was produced to advertise the new commercial spa venture established in the same year to exploit a chalybeate spring in the city, known since 1746. The dedication praised the Mayor?s and inhabitants? efforts ?in bringing the mineral spring of Thetford, for its healing virtues inestimable, yet suffered long to remain neglected and unknown, into celebrity and use? through the construction of a new pump-room and baths. After providing accounts of the topography and history of Thetford, Accum discussed the chemical and medical properties of the mineral water as well as the most effective ways to take spa baths (e.g., hot or cold, according to the conditions to be treated), supported by testimonials of men and women who had benefited from the Thetford treatments. ?One of the rarest works by Accum on Thetford Spa in Norfolk with details of the analysis if the waters at pp. 55-76. The only title cited by Waring on Thetford Spa. Not listed in any of the chemical bibliographies except Smith? (Neville I, p. 7). OCLC lists BL, Wellcome, Birmingham, NYPL, UC Davis, Yale, American Philosophical Society, National Library of Medicine, Penn and Wisconsin. Abbey, Scenery in Great Britain, 327; Neville I, p. 7 (?beautiful folding aquatint engraved frontispiece?).…