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165068492London: Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock 1650. First and only edition. Small quarto 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 180 x 139 mm. 8 100 2 pp. Bound without final blank. With engraved initials head and tail pieces.<br> <br> Newer half calf over contemporary speckled paper boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some minor toning and foxing throughout. Top margin trimmed close occasionally affecting running headline. Previous owner's morocco bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> "In early modern marriage conduct books wives are advised to submit to their husbands and husbands are advised as the 'lords of the house' to keep order by rebuking and controlling their wives. Most marriage books however do not condone wife beating. Moses a Vauts was one of the few who supported wife beating. In The Husband's Authority Unvail'd. wherein it is moderately discussed whether it be fit or lawfull for a good Man to beat his bad Wife he states 'If Wives will invent strange new Fashions and frisking strains of Disobedience. why should not their Husbands suit them with new Forms of Discipline" Vauts also declares 'It were well and better the wife could not deserve Blows; but if they be due or needful or best for her why should they be denied her'" Custome is an Idiot: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women. Edited by Susan Gushee O'Malley<br> <br> ESTC R205920.<br> <br> HBS 68492.<br> <br> $3500. Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock unknown
168352<p>Early Latin Edition of Charas' Pharmacopoea Regia</p><p>Charas Moses. Pharmacopoea Regia Galenica et Chymica. Books 1 and 2. Joannis Ludovici Du-Four. Geneve. 1683.</p><p>Collected pharmacopeia of noted French pharmacist Moses Charas 1618 – 98 who worked at the Jardin Royal du Plantes Medicinal today's Jardin des Plantes when its original purpose was to supply the medical needs of the French royal family. A protestant Charas ended up in England by way of the Netherlands and served as Royal Pharmacist to King Charles II. Eventually converting to Catholicism to escape persecution in Spain Charas was appointed as a member of the Royal Academy of Science in 1692 following his return to France in recognition of the importance of his pharmacological formulations.</p><p>An interesting figure in the history of science and medicine Charas' recipes include instructions for alchemically derived elixirs including laudanum with attention to the astrological rulerships as well as the possible extractions of useful substances from plants animals and minerals as well as human blood and urine.</p><p>Originally published in French in 1672 with a second edition in 1682 this early Latin edition predates the collected complete works of Charas also published by Du-Four in 1684. It contains numerous misprints such as numbering many pages in the 400s of Book I as in the 300s and repeating the numbering for pg 200 as 199 in Book 2. Also the final five plates depicting and explaining various distillation apparatuses are printed in the wrong order.</p><p>The last auction sale of this edition was through Sotheby-Parke-Bernet in 1980 per RBH.</p><p>12 copies OCLC as of March 2025.</p><p>4 496 404 28 index 5 plates. Vellum bound. Front board bowed. Back board vellum repaired peeling at spine. Some soiling and toning to boards. Title inked to spine. Text block dyed. Pages toned. Top fore corner of title pg missing with text unaffected. Some wear to edges. Includes five illustrated plates of distillation apparatuses. Good.</p><p>$4500</p> Joannis Ludovici Du-Four hardcover
