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A Salve for a Sicke Man 1597

Title: A Salve for a Sicke Man, or, A Treatise Containing the Nature, Differences, and Kindes of Death, as Also the Right Manner of Dying Well: And it May Serve for Spirituall Instruction to 1. Mariners When They Goe to Sea. 2. Souldiers When They Goe to Battell. 3. Women When They Trauell of Childe.
Author: [Perkins, William]
Description: With, as issued: A Declaration of the True Manner of Knowing Christ Crucified. And: A Discourse of Conscience: Wherin is Set Downe the Nature, Properties, and Differences Thereof: As Also the Way to Get and Keepe Good Conscience. The Second Edition. The three titles have separate title pages but continuous pagination and register. [4], 32, 43-73, [5], 75-145 pp. Final leaf supplied in facsimile. (4to) 8x5¾, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt.A classic early text on the art of dying well. Worldcat locates 11 only copies. According to ABPC no copies have appeared at auction in at least 30 years. STC (2nd ed.) 19743.
Heading: Place Published: Cambridge
Publisher: John Legat
Date Published: 1597