1659 First Edition of Nicholas Culpeper's 'School of Physick'
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616-1654) 'School of Physick. Or the experimental practice of the whole art. Wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot, with their proper and effectuall cures, such diet set down as ought to be observed in sickness or in health'.
Pub. LONDON: Printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1659. Collation: 8° A-C8 c4 D-2K8 2L4 ($1-4 signed) 272 leaves; pp. [58] 1-461 [27]. Page 461 misnumbered 361. Collation Brief: Portrait, title, [27]leaves, 361pp., [13]leaves. Culpeper, a quack and herbalist who made medicine popular to the public for he translated many works into English. He called himself 'student in physick and astrology'.
Impressed light brown leather (rebound since 1935 in thick brown leather), with gold embossed title to spine, some notes to various pages, some leather bleeding, foxing and tanning. Reference: ESTC R9312. From the library of Dr. William Henry Harris, Sydney, sold 1935. Bookplate: Ex Libris K.F. Russell (163x100mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $300-400