Description

Hardcover in dust-jacket. 224pp., Select Bilbliography, Index. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Stated first edition, no additional printings listed. No previous owner’s name, no book-plate, no remiander marks, no writing or marking. A unique social history in which the author traces the evolution of spas from the sacred springs of prehistoric times to the Roman baths to the fabulous watering holes of elite society in Europe, Asia and the Unitd States. A clean, square, crisp copy. Fine in fine dust-jacket.