NEANDER, Jean: "Traicté ( traité) du Tabac ou Nicotiane, pan - Lot 265

NEANDER, Jean: "Traicté ( traité) du Tabac ou Nicotiane, panacée, petun autrement herbe a la reyne avec fa preparation & fon ufage, pour la plus part des indifpofitions du corps humain, enfemble les diverfes façons de le falfifier, & les marques pour le recognoiftre: composé premierement en latin par Jean Neander, medecin à Leyden, mis de nouveau en françois, par I.V.. OEuvre tres-utile, non feulement au vulgaire, mais à tous ceux qui font la medecine, & notamment à ceux qui voyageants n'ont moyen de porter quantité de medicaments." Lyon, chez Barthelemy Vincent, rue Merciere, à l'enfeigne de la Victoire, 1630, in-12, full marbled basane, 5-nerved spine, gilt title on burgundy morocco binding, year and name of former owner gilt on spine, modern binding by Tiessen, (VIII) + 342 + (2) pp., 9 hors-texte folding plates, bandeaux, lettrines and culs-de-lampe, "hommage à Monsieur de Merle, chevalier, conseiller, secrétaire du roi, Le traducteur au lecteur, Privilèges royal. Second edition in French, the first being from 1626, of the first work by German physician Jean Neander, translated by Jacques Veyras. A curious work full of medical recipes using tobacco leaves or other parts. The author sees tobacco as a little panacea, claiming that it soothes hunger and thirst, and can be used as an antidote for hellebore poisoning. It highlights the importance of the Dutch in importing tobacco from America to Europe. Tobacco growing, harvesting, processing and storage are discussed. And how to smoke it with a pipe. Very fine, complete plates. Stamp of the library of Jean Richard (actor and circus enthusiast), a great collector of works on tobacco and especially on the pipe. New binding, handwritten bookplates on one endpaper and on title page, yellowed paper, a few freckles, some leaves skilfully restored (old traces of worms), RARE and SEARCHED. The binding is in very good condition; the paper is "old" with restorations and some scattered soiling; the plates are in good condition.