BLEGNY, Nicholas de (1652?-1722). Le bon Usage du The du Caffe et du Chocolat pour la Preservation & pour la Guerison des Maladies, Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1687, 12°, engraved frontispiece, 13 full-page engraved illustrations by Hainzelman (closed tear to frontispiece, light browning, a few stains), contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments (rebacked with old spine relaid, restored, lacking front free endpaper). [Wellcome II, p. 180; Vicaire 97]

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BLEGNY, Nicholas de (1652?-1722). Le bon Usage du The du Caffe et du Chocolat pour la Preservation & pour la Guerison des Maladies, Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1687, 12°, engraved frontispiece, 13 full-page engraved illustrations by Hainzelman (closed tear to frontispiece, light browning, a few stains), contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments (rebacked with old spine relaid, restored, lacking front free endpaper). [Wellcome II, p. 180; Vicaire 97]

Provenance

Petrus Jacob Plubeau, ownership inscription to title.

Lot Essay

Vicaire lists two other different imprints for this work: Lyon, for T. Amaulry and Paris, for E. Michallet, both printed in 1687.

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