Tea, coffee & chocolate.- Blégny (Nicolas de) Le Bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat pour la préservation & pour la guerison des maladies, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 13 full-page illustrations, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, spine ends repaired (foot of spine still little chipped), rubbed, [Bitting p.44 (note); Cagle 83 (note); Mueller p.22 (note); Oberlé Fastes 734 (Lyon, Amaulry); Vicaire 97 (note); Hunt 376 (Lyon issue)], 12mo, Paris, Estienne Michallet, rue S. Jacques, à l'image S. Paul, 1687.
⁂ Blégny was physician to Queen Maria Theresa of Spain, and later Louis XIV. It is presumed that the Lyon issue of this work takes precedence, as the original privilege, which was granted to Thomas Amaulry of that city, is found in the Paris issue.
Provenance: 'Cardin Belard' (18th century ink inscription to front free endpaper); J D, with motto semper audere (small red oval book label to front pastedown); Simon Lepinois, faculty of pharmacy, Paris, 1921 (ink inscription to front free endpaper).
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