[Rarebooks] FS: 2 early 18th c. works on health & long life, eating the right foods, bound together.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEDICINE) [Baynard, Edward]. HEALTH, A POEM. Shewing How to Procure, Preserve, and Restore It. To Which Is Annex'd the Doctor's Decade. By Darby Dawne [pseud.] M. D.  The Third Edition, Corrected. London: J. Roberts. 1724. 12mo. xii,48pp. With the half-title. BOUND WITH: A SAFE WAY TO HEALTH, LONG LIFE AND HAPPINESS. Or, a Brief Discourse on All Things Necessary for the Life of Man... To Which Is Added Some Observations on Windy Diseases... London: Printed by S. G. and sold by J. Roberts, et al. 1727. (8),48pp. The two bound together in 19th century half calf over marbled boards. Some light text soiling in the second title.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
I: Foxon B113. ESTC records only 4 American holdings.
II: The ESTC records only 2 copies worldwide of this anonymous work, only 1 in the U. S. This work has a great deal to say about food and its preparation. With a chapter on farting.

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