Practical Reflections on the Uses and Abuses of Bath Waters

William Baylies

London

:

A. Millar

,

1757

.
First Edition.

21cm x 12cm. xxvi, [6], 254 pages. Rebacked full leather, gilt lettering.

Made from Actual Experiments and Observations. A study of the waters of Bath, which by this time had long been claimed to be curative, establishing the city as England’s premier spa town.

Recently rebacked and the somewhat rubbed boards refurbished. Plates of the Apollo Circulating Library, small previous owner’s name clipped from crown fore-edge of title page. Very minor foxing and tanning. Good Condition.