Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health : with divers necessary dieteticall observations; as also of the true use and effects of sleep, exercise, excretions, and perturbations, with just applications to every age, constitution of body, and time of yeere. By To. Venner, Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed by the same author, a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe, with a censure of the medicinable faculties of the water of Saint Vincent's rocks neere the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco.
1637
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Title
Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health : with divers necessary dieteticall observations; as also of the true use and effects of sleep, exercise, excretions, and perturbations, with just applications to every age, constitution of body, and time of yeere. By To. Venner, Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed by the same author, a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe, with a censure of the medicinable faculties of the water of Saint Vincent's rocks neere the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco.
Created/published
London : Printed by R. Bishop, for Henry Hood, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1637.
Description
[14], 364 p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Note
"The baths of Bathe", originally published in 1628, and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco", originally published in 1621, each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
Includes index.
Another issue has last page unpaginated.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) a⁴ B-2Z⁴, [superscript chi]2A².
Includes index.
Another issue has last page unpaginated.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) a⁴ B-2Z⁴, [superscript chi]2A².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24646
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S126791
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S126791
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
STC 24646 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs141. Provenance: Folger purchase from Voynich, 1903
Call number
STC 24646 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH209/16. Bound with: [Hill, Thomas.] The gardeners labyrinth. London, 1652 (shelf-mark H2016). MS. markings on t.p. Bound in vellum. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: "ffytche"; armorial bookplate of Major General Albert Ffytche (motto "esperance en dieu"); Harmsworth copy