The Charitable Physitian, Shewing the manner to make and prepare in the house with ease and little paines all those remedies which are proper to all sorts of diseases, according to the advice of the best and ordinariest Physicians. Together with a Table of all those medicaments as well simple as compounded, which one ought to have by them both in City and Country.

GUIBERT,Philbert

London, Thomas Harper, 1639. En 4º (190 x 135)mm. (6), 173, (2), (5) pp. Encuadernación en piel del siglo dieciocho, reenlomado. Primera edición inglesa de la obra de Guibert publicada originalmente en francés en 1635. Dividida en tres secciones, la primera ofrece remedios para una variedad de enfermedades, la segunda enumera los instrumentos necesarios para el trabajo de boticario así como avisos prácticos sobre tratamientos y medicamentos, la última trata con detalle del proceso para embalsamar un cuerpo.
Papel amarronado, pequeña falta en el margen superior de la portada sin afectar. Antiguo sello de tinta en la portada. Ligeramente sucio.
Procedencia: W.E. Stanley Merrett, su ex-libris First edition in English, originally published in French in 1635. Divided into three sections, the first provides useful remedies for a variety of ailments, the second list the instruments necessary to furnish and apothecary and dispenses practical advice on treatments and medicants, and the last goes into great detail on the process of ambalming a corpse.
Some staining, title-page with small loss along upper margin not affecting text, browned.