London: Printed for Simon Miller, 1659. Two parts in one volume. First edition in English. 8vo. (xvi), 79, (1); 55, (8, ads) pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Everard smoking a clay pipe. Full contemporary brown sheep, ruled in blind, rebacked, wear along extremities and to boards; all edges trimmed; front free endpaper perished; wear and small chipping along edges of frontispiece; offsetting and light soiling to title-page; light scattered spotting to text; armorial book-plate of Samuel W. Lambert on front paste-down. Sabin 23216; ESTC R1871; Wing E3530

Scarce first edition in English of Everard's treatise on the medical benefits of tobacco. First published in Latin in 1587 as De herba Panacea, Everard's work is dedicated to "the worthy Merchants and Planters of Tobacco, for and in the West-Indies, and America", and features descriptions of the plant, its cultivation, preparation, its virtues, and its medicinal qualities.