Medicine.- Bolnest (Edward) Aurora Chymica: or A rational way of preparing animals, vegetables, and minerals, for a physical use; by which preparations they are made most efficacious, safe, pleasant medicines for the preservation and restoration of the life of man, only edition in English, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initials and head-pieces, damp-staining to fore-margins, closely trimmed at foot, affecting a few signatures and catchwords, upper half of front free endpaper restored, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, [Wellcome II, p.196; Wing B3497; cf. Ferguson I, p.114], by Tho. Ratcliffe, and Nat. Thompson, for John Starkey at the Miter within Temple-Bar, 1672. ⁂ Scarce, only a handful of copies at auction in the last 70 years. Despite being Physician in Ordinary to the Queen, few details of Bolnest's life are known.
Medicine.- Bolnest (Edward) Aurora Chymica: or A rational way of preparing animals, vegetables, and minerals, for a physical use; by which preparations they are made most efficacious, safe, pleasant medicines for the preservation and restoration of the life of man, only edition in English, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initials and head-pieces, damp-staining to fore-margins, closely trimmed at foot, affecting a few signatures and catchwords, upper half of front free endpaper restored, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, [Wellcome II, p.196; Wing B3497; cf. Ferguson I, p.114], by Tho. Ratcliffe, and Nat. Thompson, for John Starkey at the Miter within Temple-Bar, 1672. ⁂ Scarce, only a handful of copies at auction in the last 70 years. Despite being Physician in Ordinary to the Queen, few details of Bolnest's life are known.
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