Lewis [Luigi] Cornaro. Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life.

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(MEDICINE)

Benjamin White

London

1768

Text in English followed by the original Italian.

Cornaro here encourages eating in moderation and regarding the elderly not as a burden, but as advantageous to society.

pp. 281. Two laves at end creased. Contemporary calf, scuffed. 8vo.