GENTIL (Claude-Joseph). Dissertation on coffee and on the means to prevent the effects resulting from its commonly vicious preparation; & to make it a pleasant & more salutary drink. Paris, L'auteur, Pyre, 1787. In-8, half brown long-grained morocco with corners (modern binding).
Title, vi and 177 pp, (3) ff.
First edition of this rare work, decorated with a frontispiece engraved by O. Michel, representing a branch of caffier. In this treatise, the botanical description of the caffier, a method of preparation, and the therapeutic virtues of new coffee decoctions are given. The author was a doctor and professor at the University of Paris.
A few stains, pale wetnesses. Spine faded.
Vicaire, 398 - Bitting, 179.
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