LESSIUS, Leonardus (1554-1623). Hygiasticon; or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age: Together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonard Lessius, and now done into English. The third edition [with "A Treatise on Temperance and Diet written by Lud. Cornarus translated ... by Mr. George Herbert"], [Cambridge: R. Daniel and T. Buck] printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1636, 2 parts, 24° in 12's, third edition, [40] + 210 + 70 + [4]pp., woodcut title border and decorations, contemporary calf, sides with double gilt fillet border and fleurons at inner corners, flat-backed spine in 8 gilt-ruled compartments (spine and corners quite heavily rubbed). [STC 15522; Wellcome I, p. 200] | Christie's

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LESSIUS, Leonardus (1554-1623). Hygiasticon; or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age: Together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonard Lessius, and now done into English. The third edition [with "A Treatise on Temperance and Diet written by Lud. Cornarus translated ... by Mr. George Herbert"], [Cambridge: R. Daniel and T. Buck] printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1636, 2 parts, 24° in 12's, third edition, [40] + 210 + 70 + [4]pp., woodcut title border and decorations, contemporary calf, sides with double gilt fillet border and fleurons at inner corners, flat-backed spine in 8 gilt-ruled compartments (spine and corners quite heavily rubbed). [STC 15522; Wellcome I, p. 200]

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LESSIUS, Leonardus (1554-1623). Hygiasticon; or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age: Together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonard Lessius, and now done into English. The third edition [with "A Treatise on Temperance and Diet written by Lud. Cornarus translated ... by Mr. George Herbert"], [Cambridge: R. Daniel and T. Buck] printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1636, 2 parts, 24° in 12's, third edition, [40] + 210 + 70 + [4]pp., woodcut title border and decorations, contemporary calf, sides with double gilt fillet border and fleurons at inner corners, flat-backed spine in 8 gilt-ruled compartments (spine and corners quite heavily rubbed). [STC 15522; Wellcome I, p. 200]

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CHARMING COPY of a most attractive little book. Lessius (a Latinisation of the Dutch surname Leys) made a Latin translation of Cornaro's treatise on diet and longevity, and after himself writing Hygiasticon, seu vera ratio valetudinis bonae, published the two works together in Antwerp in 1613. Thereafter the two works appeared together in reprints and translations throughout the 17th century. The first and second English edition of Hygiasticon both appeared in 1634.

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