157 - Medicine - Folk Medicine - Eleonora Maria Rosalia zu Troppau und Jägerndorff. The Pomegranate That Sprang Forth of Its Own Accord, by the Christian Samaritan ... as well as a new cookbook in which all manner of rare dishes beneficial to patients suffering from various ailments are prescribed. With an engraved title vignette. Nuremberg, Schmidt, 1733. 2 leaves, 588 pp., 5 leaves. 21 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather binding with title on spine (edges slightly rubbed).

Medicine - Folk Medicine - Eleonora Maria Rosalia zu Troppau und Jägerndorff. The Pomegranate That Sprang Forth of Its Own Accord, by the Christian Samaritan ... as well as a new cookbook in which all manner of rare dishes beneficial to patients suffering from various ailments are prescribed. With an engraved title vignette. Nuremberg, Schmidt, 1733. 2 leaves, 588 pp., 5 leaves. 21 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather binding with title on spine (edges slightly rubbed). Horn/Arndt 126 (1731 ed.) - Wellcome II, 518 - Ferchl 141 - Ferguson I, 235. - New edition of the “Six Books of Selected Remedies …,” the most widely circulated compendium of folk medicine during the Baroque period (through p. 466, including the index). This is followed by the cookbook, with its own title and index, containing 531 recipes. - Some discoloration in places; owner’s mark on the title page; pages O2, O3, and O4 are bound in the wrong order; p. 143 has a tear that has been taped over (with minor loss of text). *