THE AMERICAN PHYSITIAN [Physician]; or, A TREATISE of the Roots, Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, Herbs, &c. Growing in the ENGLISH PLANTATIONS in AMERICA .. Whereunto is added A DISCOURSE of the CACAO-NUT-TREE, And the use of its Fruit; with all the ways of making CHOCOLATE. The like never extant before. By W.Hughes.
PlacePub
London
Publisher
Printed by J.C. for William Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar. First edition.
Date
1672
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Description
Duodecimo (140x80x15mm) contemporary blind-tooled roan, spine deficient at head & foot, hinges split, covers held by cords, tips worn & rounded. Traces of illegible ink writing on leather of front cover, brief inscriptions on front endpapers with dates Oct. 30th 1802 and Feby. 20th 1820, initials H.M. in titlepage margin. Titlepage lacks lower corner without loss of text. Paper lightly browned throughout, small marginal inkspot showing through 5 leaves, 1 cm loss from fore-edge of one page, otherwise clean and tight. Collation identical to copy in Library of Congress except lacks final blank: [24]pp (blank, titlepage, To Reader, On Mr Hughes's Treatise, Table), 159pp, [6]pp (blank, publisher's catalogue dated 1672), final blank leaf lacking (Wing H3332, Sabin 33605). *Very rare early account of Caribbean/American plants and herbs for medicinal use and enjoyment, particularly a long final section on the cacao-nut and preparation & uses of chocolate. Hughes says that his work “the most of it, some time since, was taken, with many other Observations, in travelling the Woods, and other parts (when I had leisure at odd times to go on shore, being then belonging to one of his Majesties Ships of War) especially in that praise worthy Island of Jamaica”. The last noted copy for sale was item 114 in Maggs Catalogue 1327 (2002), which states that during the last fifty years only one imperfect copy has appeared in auction records. Our copy is offered in its original binding, which needs careful repair.
Booknumber
V69212
Price
Price: GBP 6450.00 or USD 11932.00
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