Coffee, chocolate & tea.- Blégny (Nicolas de) Le Bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 13 full-page illustrations (that on p.11 repeating the frontispiece), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting and mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary French mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine very slightly chipped at foot, lower joint just starting at foot, corners little worn, some staining, rubbed, [Bitting, p. 44; Cagle p.83; Livres en bouche 131; Mueller, pp.22-23; Oberlé Fastes 734; Vicaire 97 (references refer to either the Paris or Lyon imprint)], a solid copy, 12mo, Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1687.
⁂ Nicolas de Blégny (1652–1722), French barber surgeon, and historian, who was physician to Queen Maria Theresa of Spain and Louis XIV. There is a Lyon issue of the work printed in the same year.
Provenance: 'Cardin Belard' (contemporary ink signature to front free endpaper); 'Simonis Em-Lépinois', pharmacist, 1921 (ink inscription to front free endpaper).
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