Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts; Regularly digested into Chapters and Sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet Extant; To which is added, a Treasure of Health; or the Family Physician: Being Choice and Approved Remedies for all the feveral Distempers incident to Human Bodies
by Aristotle [pseudonym of William Salmon (1644-1713)]
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: The Booksellers, 1766. Twenty-Seventh Edition. Full Leather. 15.5 x 9 cm. 16mo. viii 9-114 (misnumbered, actually pg 142] [2]. Frontispiece and in-text woodcuts. Bound in plain tan leather. Several pages are misnumbered. Piece missing from page 79 which effects the text. Binding remains tight. Not in fact by Aristotle, the attribution is spurious, and today is attributed to William Salmon. Originally published in 1684 and quite rare in any early edition. Effectly banned because of its resique subject matter of women's bodies, sex, and pregnancy. ESTC T203678.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70620
- Title
- Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts; Regularly digested into Chapters and Sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet Extant; To which is added, a Treasure of Health; or the Family Physician: Being Choice and Approved Remedies for all the feveral Distempers incident to Human Bodies
- Author
- Aristotle [pseudonym of William Salmon (1644-1713)]
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Twenty-Seventh Edition
- Publisher
- The Booksellers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1766
- Bookseller catalogs
- medicine;
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.