28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Cohausen (Johann Heinrich). Dissertatio satyrica physico-medico-moralis de pica nasi, sive tabaci sternutatorii moderno abusu, et noxa, Amsterdam: Jan Oosterwyk, 1716. 8vo (146 x 85 mm), modern quarter calf, engraved frontispiece (trimmed and mounted), title-page tipped in - Armstrong (John). The Art of Preserving Health. To which is prefixed a Critical Essay on the Poem, by J. Aikin, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. 8vo (156 x 95 mm), contemporary tree calf gilt, rebacked, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, 4 engraved plates after Stothard, engraved ownership of Joseph John Alley (1840-1912), architect, dated Manchester [18]63 - Taylor (Joseph). Annals of Health and Long Life; with Observations on Regimen and Diet, so Necessary to the Preservation of Life: including the Records of One Hundred and Forty Remarkable Persons, who attained Extreme Old Age, London: Effingham Wilson, 1818. 12mo (176 x 100 mm), modern half calf retaining contemporary marbled boards, engraved frontispiece - Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, London: A. Fullarton and Co., 1850. Large 8vo (250 x 160 mm), contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining original title-labels, hand-coloured additional vignette title-pages, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 72: lacking plate 27), a few plates finger-soiled - and 3 others (qty: 8) ESTC T60014 (Armstrong). Dissertatio ... de pica nasi is the author's best-known work, a Latin parody on snuff in which Apollo orders Mercury to confiscate the noses of snuff-users.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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