1764 1st English ed Limbourg Amusements of SPA Health Medicine Mineral Waters

1764 1^st English ed Limbourg Amusements of SPA Health Medicine Mineral Waters

 

Jean Philippe de Limbourg was a Belgian physician and chemist who holds a reputation for his frequenting public baths in Spa Belgium during the 18^th-century. He published a treatise on the public baths – a ‘tourist guide’ of sorts, which also served as a book for discussing healthy living, and health benefits of going to the spa.

 

This 1764 first English edition of ‘New Amusements’ is illustrated with five impressive folding engravings including one of a map of the environs of Spa.

 

Item number: #5335

Price: $550

 

LIMBOURG, Jean-Philippe de

 

New amusements of the German Spa : Written in French, in the year 1763.

 

London : Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers ; W. Owen ; W. Sandby ; and R. Baldwin, 1764. First English edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • 1 – xix, [1], 256
    • 5 folding plates
  • 2 – [4], 306
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17.5cm x 10.5cm)

 

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