Food and drink.- Cogan (Thomas) The Haven of Health: Chiefly made for the Comfort of Students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health... Hereunto is added a Preservation from the Pestilence : With a short Censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford, black letter, title with woodcut device to recto and arms of Edward Seymour to verso, woodcut initials and head-pieces, neat repairs and restorations to head of title with two letters of the first word partially filled in by hand, gathering ❡❡ with neatly repaired tear to top inside corner, small hole to I2 and L4 with loss to a few letters, Q4 with small rust-hole to lower margin, paper flaw to margin of 2A1, 2F4 with small patch of soiling to verso, very occasional light marginal damp-staining, the odd spot, occasional ink notes in a contemporary hand, a bright and sharp copy, contemporary calf, edges strengthened and repaired, later endpapers, [cf. Cagle 621 & 622 (first edition of 1584); Simon BG, 360 (1605 edition); Gabler G16620 (1606 edition)], small 4to, By Thomas Orwin, for William Norton, 1589. ⁂ Rare, we can trace only two complete copies at auction in the last 80 years. 'Thomas Cogan, a physician, considered wine the healthiest of all beverages and remarked: "Life and wine for the likeness of nature are most agreeable. And this is the cause I think why men by nature so greedily covet wine; except some odde Abstemius, one among a thousand perchance, degenerate and is of a doggish nature; for dogges of nature do abhor wine'. This preference for wine as a beverage had at least one modern medical justification. Water purification was not developed until much later, and physicians of the 17th and early 18th centures cautioned against the indiscriminate use of water.' - Gabler. Provenance: Katheryne Egerton (ink inscription).
Food and drink.- Cogan (Thomas) The Haven of Health: Chiefly made for the Comfort of Students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health... Hereunto is added a Preservation from the Pestilence : With a short Censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford, black letter, title with woodcut device to recto and arms of Edward Seymour to verso, woodcut initials and head-pieces, neat repairs and restorations to head of title with two letters of the first word partially filled in by hand, gathering ❡❡ with neatly repaired tear to top inside corner, small hole to I2 and L4 with loss to a few letters, Q4 with small rust-hole to lower margin, paper flaw to margin of 2A1, 2F4 with small patch of soiling to verso, very occasional light marginal damp-staining, the odd spot, occasional ink notes in a contemporary hand, a bright and sharp copy, contemporary calf, edges strengthened and repaired, later endpapers, [cf. Cagle 621 & 622 (first edition of 1584); Simon BG, 360 (1605 edition); Gabler G16620 (1606 edition)], small 4to, By Thomas Orwin, for William Norton, 1589. ⁂ Rare, we can trace only two complete copies at auction in the last 80 years. 'Thomas Cogan, a physician, considered wine the healthiest of all beverages and remarked: "Life and wine for the likeness of nature are most agreeable. And this is the cause I think why men by nature so greedily covet wine; except some odde Abstemius, one among a thousand perchance, degenerate and is of a doggish nature; for dogges of nature do abhor wine'. This preference for wine as a beverage had at least one modern medical justification. Water purification was not developed until much later, and physicians of the 17th and early 18th centures cautioned against the indiscriminate use of water.' - Gabler. Provenance: Katheryne Egerton (ink inscription).
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