Boorde, Andrew

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

The Breviary of Healthe, for all maner of sicknesses and diseases the which may be in man or woman, doth followe. Expressyng the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latyn, and Barbary, in Englishe concernyng phisicke and chierurgerie, compyled by Andrewe Boorde, or phisicke Doctour, an Englishe man... London: by Wyllyam Powell, 1552
paper, ink, leather

4to (183 x 130 mm). Two titles with woodcut borders, woodcut portrait on verso of first title, printed in black letter with woodcut initial letters; early marginal notes, faint staining to last quire, upper corners of last two leaves repaired, but generally clean and unspotted. Modern brown morocco.

Provenance

Robert Throckmorton (bookplate)

Literature

STC 3374; Osler 2082; Wellcome 975

Catalogue Note

Second edition of one of the earliest English books on diet and the rare medical work of its day written for a lay person. Boorde was a Carthusian, living on an essentially vegetarian diet. Rare in any edition.