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Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English.
- Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
- Date
- 1722
- Books
Where to find it
About this work
Also known as
Discorsi della vita sobria. English
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for Daniel Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1722.
Physical description
6 unnumbered pages, xviij, 2 unnumbered pages, 120 pages ; 12mo (15 cm)
Contributors
Edition
The third edition.
Notes
With a half-title and an initial advertisement leaf, reprinted from the 'Spectator'.
Copy 1. Imperfect: Lacks half-title and advertisement leaf. Bound in 18th century calf, rebacked. Contemporary signature of Richard Jones on flyleaf. Anonymous armorial bookplate on front pastedown.
Copy 2. Bound in 19th century card wrappers over plain paper wrappers.
Publications note
ESTC N24299
Languages
- English