THE JEWEL HOUSE OF ART AND NATURE: Containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions... [and HEALTHS IMPROVEMENT... THE NATURE, Method, and Manner of Preparing All Sorts of Food Used in This Nation]
by Plat, Hugh [and Thomas Muffett (or, Moffett)]
Price: $6,500.00
- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 5037
- Book condition:
- Publisher: Elizabeth Alsop.
- Place: London
- Date published: 1653
Book Description
London: Elizabeth Alsop.. 1653. 4to. (8),232pp. Index. Title within a type border. With numerous text woodcuts. BOUND WITH: Moffett, Thomas. HEALTHS IMPROVEMENT... THE NATURE, Method, and Manner of Preparing All Sorts of Food Used in This Nation. Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet. London: Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Thomson. 1655. (8),296pp. With the Imprimatur leaf. Both works bound together in cont. blind tooled paneled calf, front hinge cracked but cords holding. On 2 final blank leaves are 3 full pages of manuscript remedies (how to cure a sore throat, a remedy for the stones, etc) in a contemporary hand. Title of Moffett somewhat soiled. Some pencil marginal notations to both.
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