Kenelm Digby / Jean Malbec de Tressel [traducteur] - Remèdes souverains et secrets expérimentez du Chevalier Digby, chancelier de la Reine d'Angleterre - 1670

Jean Malbec de Tressel. Missing the title page. Probably: Sovereign and secret remedies, experimented with by Monsieur le Chevalier Digby, chancellor of the Queen of England. With several other secrets and perfumes, all experimented with. Around 1670. 299 pages. (14) ff. [table of contents]

A volume in-12 (150x90 mm), full calf, decorated spine with raised bands (period binding). Wear and rubbing on the covers and spine. Interior is fresh; a more or less clear stain affects the margin of several pages.

French translation by Jean Tressel de Malbec of Kenelm Digby's work, excluding the title page.

The work contains a multitude of remedies, including a cure for purple fever, a remedy based on silver pills for dropsy, a remedy for hemorrhoids, the plague, kidney disease, to prevent smallpox scars, a remedy to strengthen teeth, and even to combat jaundice.