ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS ON COFFE

DUFOUR, PHILIPPE SYLVESTRE

Traitez Nouveaux & curieux du Café, Thé, Chocolat.

La Haye, Moetjens, 1685.

12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Light soiling to extremities. Worm-tract in margin of pp. 359-401, not affecting text, otherwise a nice copy. (1-14), 15-404, (5) pp. + 3 plates. 

This third edition of one of the first works to deal with the gastronomic and healing qualities of coffee, tea and chocolate and the first work in any language to describe the three new beverages of the seventeenth century. This is the only edition having the appendix consisting of a dialogue about the medical properties between a physician, an Indian and a civilist.

Vicaire p. 293-94.

Order-nr.: 60607