Trapham Thomas (3 results)

First Edition. Full Description: TRAPHAM, Thomas. A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica. With a Provision therefore Calculated from the Air. the Place, and the Water: The Customs and Manners of Living, &c. London: Printed for R. Boulter, 1679. First edition. Small octavo (6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches; 164 x 105 mm). [16], 149, [3, publisher's ads] pp. Contempory calf rebacked preserving backstrip. Spine stamped in gilt. Small red leather bookplate, lettered in gilt. Boards ruled in blind. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown and matching small armorial blindstamp on title and first three pages of preliminaries. Some minor worming to lower inner margin of first three signatures, not affecting text. Overall a very good, crisp copy. "Thomas Trapham, MD, was the son of Thomas Trapham, surgeon-in-chief to Oliver Cromwell. Dr Trapham was educated at Magdalen college, Oxford. He had been demy of that college from 1654 to 1661, but in the last named year retired to Magdalen hall, and as a member of that house proceeded master of arts 14th May, 1661. He entered on the physic line at Leyden, 15th February, 1663, and obtained his degree of doctor of medicine at the university of Caen 17th October, 1664. He was admitted an Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians in December of the same year. He married on the 21st January, 1667, at Stoke Newington, to Mrs Susannah Coxe. Subsequently to this he went to Jamaica, and is supposed to have been swallowed up by an earthquake in that island in 1692. He was the author of "A Discourse of the state of Health in the Island of Jamaica; with a provision therefor, calculated from the air, the place, and the water, the customs and manner of living, &c." Lond, 8vo, 1679." (Royal College of Physicians) HBS 68743. $12,500.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1679 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 173 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 173.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1679 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 184 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 184.