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Goodwin Thomas

An Account of the Neutral Saline Waters recently discovered at Hampstead. With Chemical Experiments on their Component Parts, Observations on their Medicinal Application and Effects in certain Diseases, and on the different Modes of Bathing. [First and Sole Edition.] PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR; IN ORIGINAL BOARDS.

Printed for the Author and sold by J. Murray, 32 Fleet-Street - [and others], 1804

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Year of publication
1804
Author
Goodwin Thomas
Publishers
Printed for the Author and sold by J. Murray, 32 Fleet-Street, [and others]
Keyword
topography, london, middlesex, middx, hampstead, spas, medicial waters, mineral waters, springs, thomas goodwin
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece and engraved map, frontispiece lightly offset to title, map lightly offset to facing page, some light dust-soiling; original boards, faux-vellum back, uncut, expertly recased, boards mildly worn at extremities, covers and fore-edges dust-soiled else a bright, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. With the half-title, and errata leaf bound in at end. The frontispiece, engraved by Chesham, depicts 'Hampstead near the new Medicinal Springs'. The map, engraved by Neele, shows 'Hampstead with some of the Adjacent Villages, and surrounding Rides'. According the author's Address, publication of this work was delayed by some six months because Goodwin wished his experiments to be confirmed by George Pearson. The work is dedicated to Thomas Keate, Surgeon to the Queen and Prince of Wales. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Not in Anderson or Upcott, though Anderson records two earlier works on the medicinal waters, namely those of Soame (1734) and Bliss (1802).