Natures restorative: or, health-procuring spirit. / Made by John Pordage, physitian. Now publickly sold for a general good.

[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1671 and 1681]

8 pages ; 4to (19 cm)

Caption title.

Range of dates based on appointment of Seller as the King's Hydrographer in 1671 and the death of the author in 1681.

List of sellers on p. 7-8 probably refers to availability of the drug, but includes booksellers: "To be had at the authors house in Leather-Lane in Holbourn. At Mr. Sellers, at the Hermitage-Bridge, the Kings Hydrographer; Mr. Brown a cutler, at the west-end of the Royal Exchange in Cornhil: at Mr. Budds, the corner shop in Kings-Street in Cheapside: at Mr. Harpers, a book-seller over against Cliffords-Inn-Lane in Fleetstreet: Mr. Pool a stationer, by St. Clement's-Inn: Mr. Johnson a grocer, over against the Fountain-Tavern in the Strand: Mr. Gillyflower book-seller in Westminster-Hall, at the corner shop, next the Kings-Bench."

Signature: A4 (A2 is missigned B2).

Woodcut headpiece.

Not in Wing.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Note: Bound in 20th century red buckram, leather spine and corners. 17th century ms. inscription at foot of final page: 'Thomas Britton his book'. 17th century ms. doodles on verso of original flyleaf: 'and no more', 'from d d', 'what shall I', 'Come'. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.

ESTC, R498225