Hartman, George
£1,300
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 3 September 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
The true preserver and restorer of health. Being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies... Together with excellent directions for cookery; as also for preserving, and conserving and making all sorts of metheglin, sider, cherry-wine, &c. London: T.B. for the author, 1682. First edition, 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, full-page woodcut plate, contemporary calf, some light spotting, neatly rebacked
Footnote
Note: Wing H1004. A good copy of a rare work. The second part, Excellent directions for cookery has a separate title page. The third part covers recipes for metheglin, sider and cherry-wine. Between p. 6 and 9 in part 2 is a cancelled leaf 2A4, replaced by a woodcut plate depicting the 'engin for dressing of meat'. In some copies this is found on a wider stub and is therefore sometimes found folded.