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in the cure of the griping flux of the belly, and of the dysentery. Of cold water, in the cure of the gout, and green-wounds. Or wine-vineger, in the preservation from, and cure of the plague, first edition in English, title within woodcut typographic border, trimmed at lower edge, with loss of border, [Wing V63; Krivatsy 5595; Wellcome III, p.260], James Young for O.P., 1653 bound with Dufour (Phillipe Sylvestre) The Manner of Making of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate, first English edition, full-page woodcut illustration, lacks advertisement f., [Wing D2455; Wellcome II, p.323], for William Crook, 1685, The Macclesfield copy with bookplate, lightly browned, attractive 18th century speckled calf, spine richly gilt, green morocco label, some worming to foot of spine, 12mo

***The second work has much on the use of coffee, tea and chocolate in Restoration England, Asia, Africa and America..

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