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BONTEKOE, CORNELIS, - Tractaat van het excellenste kruyd thee: 't Welk vertoond het regte gebruyk, en de groote kragten van 't selve in gesondheyt, en siekten: benevens een kort discours op het leven, de siekte, en de dood: mitsgaders op de medicijne van dese tijd. Ten dienste van die gene, die lust hebben, om langer, gesonder, en wijser te leven. Den derden druk vermeerdert, en vergroot met byvoeginge van noch twee korte verhandelingen, I. Van de coffi; II. Van de chocolate, mitsgaders van een Apologie van den autheur tegens sijne lasteraars.

's Gravenhage, Pieter Hagen, 1685. Small 8vo. (LIII)+343 pp. With engr. title plate, general title printed in red & black. Contemp. vellum. (Rear cover has some brown spots; first 5 printed lvs. have torn off top corners with loss of a few letters in top lines, also slightly affecting title plate that has some superficial damage as well. Old price inscr. on verso of front endp.: "2 Stuyvers"). ¶ BMN I: 417. Zachert p.235. 3rd edition published in the year of author's decease (1st appeared 1678) . Justification foreword ('Den drucker tot den leser') with printer's signature in ink. - In this most widely known work of the period on the subject, Dr. Bontekoe recommends the drinking of tea from 8 to 10 cups a day, given that he himself consumed such quantities, and claims to drink 50 to 200 cups daily. The treatise is preceded by a two-page laudatory poem by 'V.O.'. Added are a chapter on the healthy effects of coffee and another on chocolate, and 'an apology from the author against his slanderers' (he may have been under the employment of the Dutch East India Company, then having the monopoly on the tea market, while making these recommendations).
EUR 650.00EUR [Appr.: US$ 750.11 | £UK 570.5 | JP¥ 115667] Booknumber: 44675

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(Blake). Keynes, Geoffrey. (Editor). - THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. 261pp. + [iii]. Port. frontis., 12 plates. Good in lightly soiled d/w. browned to spine, t.e.blue. ¶ From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor.
GBP 25.00GBP [Appr.: EURO 28.5 US$ 32.87 | JP¥ 5069] Booknumber: 294471

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GERALD S. GRAHAM - The Secular Abyss; an Interpretation of History and the Human Situation

Theosophical Publishing House. 1968. Soft Cover. PB/ pub. 1968/ Gd.+ condition/320 pages- We must look for the cause, not the outer circumstances of life, but in certain inner changes that are taking place in men's minds as part of the continuing ev olution of mankind. Its necessary to look back through the centuries to see in what ways men's beliefs have changed.(C31531). Good.
USD 29.75USD [Appr.: EURO 26 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 4587] Booknumber: 1531

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