A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed / Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq. Whereunto are annexed the testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related.

  • Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683.
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1666
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London : Printed for J. Starkey, 1666.

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1 unnumbered leaf, 96 pages : engr. frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)

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Wing G1789
ESTC R6820
Wing (2nd ed.), G1789

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Reply to Lloyd's 'Wonders no miracles'
Copy 1 Note: Inscription on fly-leaf: "Anth. Collins. For Mr. Desmaizeaux at the Cock Pit Coffee House." Anthony Collins (1676-1729), deist writer, was a friend of Pierre Desmaizeaux (1673?-1745).--cf. Collins' entry in DNB.
Copy 2 Note: Upper portion of port. wanting and supplied in ink. Formerly in possession of William Palmer, Junior (dated London, August 1825), a descendent of Greatrakes. The descent is shown in a pedigree written inside the front cover.
Copy 3 Note: Filmed from Copy 1 (25601/B/1)

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