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Schat der gesontheyt / Ioh. van Beverwyck.

Beverwyck, Jan van, 1594-1647 · 1638 · Tot Dordrecht : Voor Matthias Havius, gedruckt by Hendrick van Esch ... · 11 pictures

Schat der gesontheyt, a 1638 Dutch health treatise by physician Jan van Beverwyck, printed at Dordrecht by Hendrick van Esch for the bookseller Matthias Havius, aimed at general readers concerned with keeping well. Its pictures are engraved allegorical scenes with classical gods, figures in clouds, and a seated youth piping beside a landscape, offering a designer examples of dense crosshatched engraving and mythological staging.

Health -- Early works to 1800

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