BLEGNY, Nicolas de (1652-1722). Le bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1687. 12°. Engraved frontispiece and 13 large illustrations in the text (occasional light discolouration and spotting). Contemporary Parisian sprinkled calf, gilt spine (rubbed). Provenance : contemporary deleted signature on an endpaper -- Cardin Belard (early 18th-century signature on same endpaper) -- small 19th-century ex-libris on front paste-down endpaper with motto 'semper audere'.
BLEGNY, Nicolas de (1652-1722). Le bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1687. 12°. Engraved frontispiece and 13 large illustrations in the text (occasional light discolouration and spotting). Contemporary Parisian sprinkled calf, gilt spine (rubbed). Provenance : contemporary deleted signature on an endpaper -- Cardin Belard (early 18th-century signature on same endpaper) -- small 19th-century ex-libris on front paste-down endpaper with motto 'semper audere'. FIRST EDITION of one of the first French books on tea, coffee and chocolate by the mountebank Nicolas de Blegny who, before spending seven years in prison between 1693 and 1700, had been appointed royal doctor to Louis XIV. After his release he retired to Lyon. Vicaire 97; Bitting 97.
BLEGNY, Nicolas de (1652-1722). Le bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1687. 12°. Engraved frontispiece and 13 large illustrations in the text (occasional light discolouration and spotting). Contemporary Parisian sprinkled calf, gilt spine (rubbed). Provenance : contemporary deleted signature on an endpaper -- Cardin Belard (early 18th-century signature on same endpaper) -- small 19th-century ex-libris on front paste-down endpaper with motto 'semper audere'.
BLEGNY, Nicolas de (1652-1722). Le bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1687. 12°. Engraved frontispiece and 13 large illustrations in the text (occasional light discolouration and spotting). Contemporary Parisian sprinkled calf, gilt spine (rubbed). Provenance : contemporary deleted signature on an endpaper -- Cardin Belard (early 18th-century signature on same endpaper) -- small 19th-century ex-libris on front paste-down endpaper with motto 'semper audere'. FIRST EDITION of one of the first French books on tea, coffee and chocolate by the mountebank Nicolas de Blegny who, before spending seven years in prison between 1693 and 1700, had been appointed royal doctor to Louis XIV. After his release he retired to Lyon. Vicaire 97; Bitting 97.
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