COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Everard, Giles.
Author (contributor):
Borowitz, Lulu.
Author (contributor):
Borowitz, David, 1906-1988
Author (contributor):
Downes, P.
Author (contributor):
Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588.
Author (contributor):
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.
Author (contributor):
Neander, Johann, approximately 1596-approximately 1630.
Title:
Panacea; or The universal medicine, : being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe, with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery. /
Publisher:
Printed for Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-Yard near the West-End
Begin Publication Date:
1659
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991013177299706966
Permanent Call Number:
F659 .E93p
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 00-155
Subjects:
Tobacco--Physiological effect.
Subjects:
Smoking.
Subjects:
Booksellers' catalogs--Great Britain--1659.
Subjects:
Imprint 1659.
General Note:
Probably a translation of the author's "De herba panacea" published at Utrecht in 1644. Cf. Church, no. 557.; Epistle dedicatory (running title) signed: J.R.; Comprises translations of the author's De herba panacea, first printed Antwerp, 1587, that was printed as part of Johann Neander's Tabacologica, first printed Leiden, 1622. Also includes some passages from Charles L'Ecluses' [i.e. Carolus Clusius] edition of Nicolás Monardes Exoticorum libri decem, first printed Leiden, 1605.; "Panacea, or The universall medicine; being a discourse and discription [sic] of tobacco, with its preparation and use", p. 1-79, 2nd count, has separate caption title.; "Dr Everard his discourse of the wonderfull effects & operation of tobacco", p. 1-55, 4th count, has separate caption title.; Signatures: A-E⁸ (A1 verso blank) F-G⁴ (G4 verso blank) H-L⁸ (L8 verso blank); Errors in paging: p. 53, 4th count, printed as a backwards 3 followed by the correctly printed numeral 5.; Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1-8], 5th count.; Woodcut head pieces; initials.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the JCB Associates Fund.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: P. Downes: ms. autograph on title page with his probable inscription on recto of engraved frontispiece "Bought this book ... January 1676"; David and Lulu Borowitz: bookplate on front pastedown.