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LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS
LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS

SULPHUR-BASED MEDICINE

Original price £180.00 - Original price £180.00
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£180.00
£180.00 - £180.00
Current price £180.00

[Advert]: Krafft / Tugend und Würckung deß edlen Balsam Sulphuris [...]. [Germany, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century?]

Advert promoting Balsam Sulphuris, ‘a medicinal preparation made by boiling flowers of sulphur in olive oil or barbadoes tar’ (Cox and Dannehl, 2007).

Details

Single sheet printed on recto and verso. 17.2 x 21.2 cms. Fold line, browning to paper. Probably removed from a Sammelband (paper loss to inner margin; no loss of text).

OCLC shows no copies. Not in VD17 or VD18.

Nancy Cox and Karin Dannehl, Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities 1550-1820 (Wolverhampton, 2007), https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/traded-goods-dictionary/1550-1820