Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plaine philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preseruation of health : with diuers necessary dieticall obseruations ... / by To. Venner ... ; whereunto is annexed a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe, lately published by the same author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.

Contributor:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diet--Early works to 1800.

Diet.

Health--Early works to 1800.

Health.

Longevity--Early works to 1800.

Local Subjects:

Longevity--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Aresty, Esther B. (donor)

Knott, John (autograph, March 15, 1904)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 226, that is, 224 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 24 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Via recta ad vitam longam

Plaine philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preseruation of health

Place of Publication:

London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1628.

Notes:

Remainder of t.p.: As also of the true vse and effects of sleepe, exercise, excretions and perturbations, with iust applications to euery age, constitution of body, and time of yeere.

Signatures: A (a) B-2F , A-C D .

Page numbers 217-218 omitted in sequence.

The Baths of Bathe ([4], 24 p. at end) has special t.p. and separate pagination and signatures.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 24645

ESTC S119095

Contains:

Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660. Baths of Bathe.

OCLC:

54546802