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[COCK, Thomas (b. ?1630)]. Kitchin-Physick: or, Advice to the Poor, by the way of Dialogue [pt. II:] Miscelanea medica: or, A Supplement to Kitchin-Physick; To which is added, a short discourse on stoving and bathing. London: printed in the year, 1675. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (139 x 90mm). Each title within ruled border, 4 pp. of advertisements at end (lacks folding plate of a portable bath in pt. II, first title laid down and with a few small wormholes, affecting one or two letters, upper corner of first few leaves lightly waterstained, small hole in margin of G4, upper margin cropped just touching headline of about 4 pages, a few spots). Contemporary blindstamped calf (front cover detached, rear cover broken but one cord holding, rubbed).
RARE, ?FIRST EDITION. Wing lists 2 copies only of the 1675 edition of part I (both copies are located in America: National Library of Medicine, Maryland and University of Pennsylvania Libraries). The second part was issued as part of Kitchin-Physick in both 1675 and 1676 but was also published separately. Krivatsy 2535 (this copy incomplete, lacks pp. 53-68 of pt. II); Wing C4791bA (both works) and C4793 (part II only); cf. Wellcome II, p. 364 and Oxford English Cookery Books to 1850 list the 1676 edition only. The British Library has the 1676 edition of part I only.
RARE, ?FIRST EDITION. Wing lists 2 copies only of the 1675 edition of part I (both copies are located in America: National Library of Medicine, Maryland and University of Pennsylvania Libraries). The second part was issued as part of Kitchin-Physick in both 1675 and 1676 but was also published separately. Krivatsy 2535 (this copy incomplete, lacks pp. 53-68 of pt. II); Wing C4791bA (both works) and C4793 (part II only); cf. Wellcome II, p. 364 and Oxford English Cookery Books to 1850 list the 1676 edition only. The British Library has the 1676 edition of part I only.
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