LISTER, Martin (1639-1712)

De fontibus medicatis Angliae exercitatio nova, & prior ... editio altera auctior

London: impensis Walteri Kettilby, ad insigne Capitis Episcopalis in Coemiterio D. Pauli, 1684.
8vo: A4 B--G8 H4; 2A4 (2A1 + *2) 2B--G8 2H4, 114 leaves, pp. [8] 104; [12] 104. Woodcut initials. ESTC calls for an imprimatur leaf in error. Plates: 1 engraved plate with letterpress caption. Leaf size and condition: 176 x 111mm. Slight browning to page edges at beginning and end due to acid migration from the turn-ins. Binding: Contemporary English blind panelled pale calf, unlettered sprinkled spine, gilt board edges, red sprinkled page edges. Headcap chipped, joints and corners worn. Provenance and annotation: Svenska Läkaresällskapet, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, with calligraphic stamp on title and duplicate label on pastedown. References: Keynes 5; Wing L2519; ESTC R16063.
Second edition (first York, 1682). Advertised in the Easter Term Catalogue, 1684 (II, p. 73). There were continental reprints in 1684 and 1686 and a third London edition in 1686.
§ This small book on mineral waters was Lister's second book, originally privately printed at York in 1682 presumably in a very small edition. In the following year Lister gave up his medical practice in Yorkshire and moved with his family to London. Without a medical degree - though he had studied medicine at Cambridge and Montpellier - Lister was unable to become a member of the College of Physicians and practice in the capital. The re-publication of De fontibus for general sale in London was clearly a part of his successful campaign to establish himself in the South. He first intended to dedicate the book to the president of the Royal Society, then at the last minute substituted a dedication to the University of Oxford. He made substantial donations of books and specimens to the newly opened Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and regularly attended meetings of the Royal Society, to which he had been elected in 1671. These efforts were rewarded with the grant of a DM degree from the University of Oxford, allowing him to be accepted by the College of Physicians, and he began to practice medicine in the highest ranks of London society. He became vice-president of the Royal Society in 1685 and a fellow of the College of Physicians in 1687. The single plate of crystals is printed from the copperplate used for the first edition, but re-lettered and with 3 small figures added. Though it is unsigned, Keynes states that it was almost certainly engraved by William Lodge (1649--1689). He says nothing of the artist but in 1685 Lister published a collection of illustrations of exotic land shells (De cochleis, 1685) with plates engraved, probably by Lodge, from paintings by Lister's daughters Susanna (baptised 1670) and Anne (born 1671). In this copy and in Keynes's copy (Earl Fitzwilliam) the dedication (leaves *1--2) and the plate are bound after the title of the second part. Presumably they were intended to be placed after the first title. Keynes located only three copies of the first edition, at the BNF, Bodley and the Royal Society; 2 more have since come to light, recorded in ESTC at the British Library and York Minster. Of this second edition ESTC records 14 copies in the UK; 7 in North America; and the BNF.

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