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Spa water.- French (John) The York-Shire Spaw, or a Treatise of Four Famous Medicinal Wells, viz, the Spaw, or Vitrioline-Well; the Stinking, or Sulphur-Well; the Dropping, or Petrifying-Well; and S. Mugnus-Well, near Knares-borow in York-Shire. Together with the Causes, Vertues, and Use thereof, first edition, woodcut decoration to title, woodcut initial and head-pieces, with final Contents f., very light soiling to tile, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary sheep, rebacked, some staining to covers, [Wing F2175], small 8vo, for E. Dod, and N. Ekins, and are to be sold at the Gun, in Ivy-Lane, 1652. ⁂ A charming little work, rare in the first edition. Provenance: Sarah Horner (ink inscription).