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17147280London: For Richard Wilkin 1714. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 16 218 13 pages. FIRST EDITION. "Mary Kettilby's collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies from a tasty "green-pease soop without meat" to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth for pickling and collaring rather than ragouts. Where Hannah Woolley had led plenty of female cooks with their eye on the profitable middle market followed with books like Mary Kettilby's collection of recipes 1714 and Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife 1734" Colquhoun Taste: The Story of Britain through its Cookery 2015. Kettilby's book purported to be a collective effort: the preface stating that 'a Number of very Curious and Delicate House-wives Club'd to furnish out this Collection'. Maclean however pages 79-82 doubts this and notes that evidence from later editions indicate Kettilby to be the main author. Apart from the Preface there is no introduction of any sort: the recipes follow immediately after the chapter headings. The book is clearly divided into chapters of recipes for food and for remedies but within the chapters there is no definite structure. For example the first chapter begins with six recipes for soups followed by recipes for collared beef 'French-Cutlets' collared mutton stewed pigeons broiled pigeons dressed turbot and then patties 'for a Dish of Fish'. The recipes are given either as goals as 'To make Hogs-Puddings' or as titles sometimes with descriptions as 'A very good Tansy'. Quantities are given in whichever units are convenient as 'a Gallon of grated Bread' 'three Pounds of Currants' or 'nine Eggs'. Often quantities rely on the cook's judgment as 'as much Sugar as will make it very sweet'. Temperatures and timings are given when necessary as 'a cool Oven: Half an Hour bakes it'. Later binding in 19th century style. Half-calf gilt-decorated spine marbled endpapers. The front paste-down contains the bookplates of two significant culinary collections: Thomas Scruggs & Margaret Cook and Marian Hatch. The Hatch bookplate was designed and engraved by British engraver Alfred J. Downey. With the bookseller's ticket of Philip C. Duschnes to the rear pastedown. Ink ownership mark to half-title "1718 Eliseab; and inscription on final page of text "illeg. near New College Oxford". OCLC locates eighteen copies; Bitting page 258; Cagle 789; Maclean pages 79-82; Oxford page 54; Wellcome II page 389. For Richard Wilkin hardcover books
170851699London: printed and sold by J. Morphew 1708. Folio pp. 12; removed from binding; small withdrawn stamp at the base of A2 light soiling short tear at the top gutter; all else very good. Foxon C-541. Not found in CBEL or NCBEL. Apparently rare: ESTC locates only 3 copies: British Library Guildhall Library and the National Library of Scotland. OCLC adds Minnesota this copy and the only copy in America and the National Library of Sweden. COPAC finds three more: Manchester York and Leicester. <br/><br/> printed and sold by J. Morphew unknown books
1746mon0000163041Paris: D'Houry 1746. BOUND FOR THE DUKE OF ORLEANS - THE CORTLAND BISHOP COPY. 1 vol. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" engraved bookplate of Louis Philippe D'Orleans to front pastedown. Bound in fine full dark red French morocco over cords gilt decorated spine spine panels with d'Orleans arms covers ruled in gilt covers with the gilt crest of Louis Philippe I Duc d'Orleans gilt dentelles all edges gilt hinges fine head and foot of spine fine. Leather bookplate of Cortland Bishop to front pastedown his sale April 27 1938 Lot #1679. rnLouis Philippe "le gros" was born at Versailles in 1725 and became Duke of Orleans and head of the House of Orleans upon the death of his father on 1752. Paris: D'Houry hardcover books
178555306Newport 1785. Three-page folio manuscript approx. 13" x 16"; previous folds paper toned considerable dampstaining but the text remains legible; several short splits at the folds; good. Joanna Brown was the daughter of Nicholas and his wife Rhoda Jenckes Brown. Sadly Joanna died at the age of nineteen apparently of a flu-like illness. Nicholas Brown Sr. 1729-1791 was a Providence merchant who co-founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations which was renamed Brown University after Brown's son Nicholas Brown Jr. in 1804. Brown was a active supporter of both the College and of the First Baptist Church in America throughout his life. Upon his death in 1791 Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman of Boston gave his eulogy. This manuscript opens with: "Memorandum of the state of mind & sum circumstances of Joanna Brown Daughter of Nicholas Brown & Rhoda his whife sic. In her last Illness. She Departed this Life January the 18th at abt 4 after two in the morning aged nineteen years wanting five Days--with a Consumption. On blank day of June being Sunday & a remarkably hot day Joanna was out that afternoon to meeting abt 3 OC there came up a Hard squall of wind & sum rain after meeting she went up to her Aunt Pages and is said she wet her feet however in the evening she went with sum of her young company Sat out under Capt Pages buttonwood trees in his yard and caught such a cold as not to be able to go out of chambers the next day the next day had sum complaints of pain in her side with a fever." Joanna was taken to Newport "for a Sea Upland air" and had an herbal medicine prescribed by Dr Stiles of New York "called by them boneset" but after a visit to "Uncle John B and his wife Nabby" in "Popersquash" in Bristol for several days in July she was no better. "She had taken the P. herb according to direction with such others means as thot advisable while in Newport by Drs Eyers & Easton during which time we had many letters from Dr Eyers & herself most of which rather gave her case to be mending tho with no grait Incouragement at any time However in my own opinion she was no better when returned." Joanna's illness lasted over six months before she died and the writer gives much detail concerning both her illness and the question of how to relay to her that she was likely to die. "About the 22nd of December I wrote a friend that she was very low & as to her state of body could not continue but a little while.Was much wasted and could not sit at the table by herself. She was ready for Gods call & expected grait Love for Christ & Trusting in God.she died with great tranquility of mind.yet Satan was busy about her often darkning & discouraging her tho' afterwards for sum weeks before her end was much more releaved from the influence of the Adversary--see copy of 2nd letter to Mr Stillman ." Presumably Rev. Samuel Stillman had been contacted concerning her imminent demise. The manuscript is unsigned but it was probably written by someone very close to her in her last illness--possibly either a nurse or housekeeper or perhaps some lower level Baptist preacher--not James Manning then pastor of the First Baptist Church-- judging by the spelling. The provenance according to Dan Seigel is "from William Goddard's papers" but the handwriting is not his nor her father's or step-mother's. <br/><br/> unknown books
1790CAT000091Paris: Hotel de Bouthillier 1790. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Later 1/4 morocco over boards. light wear at corners. Slight offsetting to text otherwise quite clean internally. xxxvii 121 5 109 3. Vicaire 348-9.<br/><br/>Scarce tract on the history trade use and chemical properties of coffee. At the end is a rather charming long poem on coffee translated from the Latin of Abbé Massieu. Size: 8vo octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; History. Inventory No: CAT000091. Hotel de Bouthillier hardcover books
1780042451London: E. Newbery 1780. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. First edition of the Newbery miniature bible approx. 2" x 1 3/4". Contemporary calf modestly worn at edges front board cleanly neatly reattached. Lacking front endpapers but otherwise complete with 2 engraved titles and 14 engraved plates. Light age toning and slight offsetting to the plates - an attractive copy of the Newbery thumb bible. Title in first state with miniature spelled "minuiture". 256pp Size: 64mo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 042451. E. Newbery hardcover books
1769CAT000092Amsterdam: Steven van Esveldt 1769. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Attractively bound in ca. early 19th century wallpaper three volumes in one each with a separate title and frontispiece - only the third title page with a date. Slight occasional foxing and age toning first and last pages slightly soiled otherwise a fine bright copy. xxii blank 148 xx 140 xii 143 1. With a folding table in the first book and two folding plates of carving instruction in the second. Oberle 107 1755 edition Cagle 1098.<br/><br/>An attractive copy of the most popular Dutch cookbook of the 18th century - compared by Oberle to Le Cuisiniere Bourgeoise. Size: 8vo octavo. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000092. Steven van Esveldt unknown books
1743044749Antwerp: Architypographia Plantiniana 1743. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rubbed with some surface marks but sound and with clasps and catches intact. Attractively printed in red and black - quite clean internally; later pamphlet tipped in between page 328 and 329 a few pencil notes. Old manuscript note on the rear endpapers. 555pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044749. <br/><br/> Architypographia Plantiniana hardcover books
1770CAT000667Paris: Chez Lottin 1770. Derniere. Hardcover rebound in leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in leather backed marble boards in period style. Scattered browning foxing minor paper flaws mark on title from acidic ink signature on verso. Two volumes in one bound without the second title. xvi 384 382 2pp. Styled the Derniere edition though a few followed. Usually noted as having been first published in 1765 or 1762 but maybe through a confusion with the Dictionnaire Domestique Portatif. The first located edition was 1767. Cagle 162 1767 ed. Bitting 5543 Oberle 2 98 Vicaire 276<br/><br/>Often lost among the more original Menon Massialot or charming Le Cuisinier Gascon cookbooks that preceded it and the post-revolutionary works that followed Beauvilliers Careme the Dictionnaire Portatif marks an interesting if largely derivative moment in French cuisine. Like the contemporary also anonymous Manuel des officiers de bouche it serves as a summation of centuries of French cuisine from Taillevent and the Menagier to the brink of the revolution all in a handy alphabetical form. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000667. Chez Lottin hardcover books
176520415Paris: Sebastien Jorry 1765. First and only edition. 8vo pp. 16. Stitched self wraps lacks the rear spine strengthened with paper tape. Little dusty but a very nice clean copy printed on "papier fort" the type leaving a palpable impression in the paper. Rare not in Pia Barbier BN Rose OCLC etc. An epistle to the hymen in verse. Sebastien Jorry unknown books
179024683Dublin: Byrne 1790. First Irish Edition. 8vo pp. 160. Front hinge loose. Bound in rubbed and some worn leather backed paper boards paper lacking from front cover with some library stamps inside. A good copy for all that. Entirely printed in red. An English edition appeared the same year. See Tourneux Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la revolution Francaise 3.13483; ESTC T108411 for the UK Edition; not in Martin-Waller or Saricks. The original French edition of this pretended to be the official list of pensioners published by the government. It was more likely issued to embarrass the ruling class portraying them as a group of loafers living off the work of the population burdened with taxes. It's appearance in England is an indication of the British Jacobean interest in the French goings on. The existence of a Dublin printing is especially strange given that the Irish working population spoke mostly Gaelic and this nasty work is not really aimed at the ruling class who were the subject of its satire. The British library Catalogue offers a possible attribution to Jean-Baptiste Martin Louis La Reynie de la Bruyere q.v. Querard 4.558-559. Byrne unknown books
1718045548Antwerp: Typographia Plantiniana Plantin Press 1718. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf wear at corners spine a little dry with wear at the ends clasps intact - quite attractive overall. Printed in red and black scattered light browning internally. A nice copy. 72 616 ccxliv 4pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045548. <br/><br/> Typographia Plantiniana (Plantin Press) hardcover books
171217916London: John Morphew 1712. First edn. 8vo pp. viii 265 139. Bound in recent calf backed boards by Grey Parrot with some scattered soiling and foxing a very good copy. Not in Halkett & Laing. Under the reign of Queen Anne England went to war to wrest the Spanish dominions from Philip of Spain and give them to Austrain Archduke Charles. This caused a split between the British Whigs who supported the war and the Torries who were less interested. Eventually the Peace of Utrecht was signed in 1713 stipulating for the permanent separation of the Crowns of France and Spain. John Morphew unknown books
178057363London: G. Kearsly 1780. First Edition. 8vo pp.4 91 1. Includes the half title removed from a bound volume. Very good. Not in Adams nor Sabin. Refers to the Gordon Riots also called No-Popery Riots that took place in London in June 1780. The Anti-Catholic agitation was instigated by Lord George Gordon. From Wikipedia: "The Gordon Riots of 1780 began as an anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778 which intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. The protest evolved into riots and looting. The Gordon Riots by Charles Green. The Popery Act 1698 had imposed a number of penalties and disabilities on Roman Catholics in England; the 1778 Act eliminated some of these. An initial peaceful protest led on to widespread rioting and looting and was the most destructive in the history of London. Painted on the wall of Newgate prison was the proclamation that the inmates had been freed by the authority of "His Majesty King Mob". The term "King Mob" afterwards denoted an unruly and fearsome proletariat.The Riots came at the height of the American War of Independence when Britain was fighting American rebels France Spain and the Dutch Republic. They led to unfounded fears that they had been a deliberate attempt by France and Spain to destabilise Britain before an imminent invasion similar to the Armada of 1779. G. Kearsly unknown books
1780228287London n.p. September 4 1780. 1780. 8vo. Later tan wrappers. 8 pages. Scarce. Extensive discussion of the losses in the war with America France and Spain. Sabin 21474. Soft cover. Very Good. [London, n.p., September 4, 1780]. paperback books
1800045663sl: sn 1800. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet worn and soiled chipping at edges title in an old hand to verso bleeding through - with three attractive woodcuts at top. The same text as Evans 49645 with similar woodcuts but with A Virtuous Life appended - the AAS gives a date of between 1790 and 1810. The ESTC shows only the AAS copy. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045663. <br/><br/> sn unknown books
173811064012mo. Londres i.e. Amsterdam : Aux dépens de la Compagnie 1738. 12mo 4 179pp. Title- printed in red and black. Ink signature “Carteret Harvey†on A1. 19th-century blue cloth red label red edges very good. § OCLC: 12073708: “Miscellany comprising a grotesque fairy tale a philosophical epistle and a series of letters addressed from hell to the world above. The whole is redolent of political and philosophical overtones intended as a criticism of the Regency and the morality of the age. L'amour magot is a fable about the dangers of romantic love in an inexperienced young heroine. The 'lettres infernales' are written by inhabintants of hell. One letter is written from a bookseller addressed to his colleagues on earth in which he discusses hell's booktrade.†OCLC locates in all about 18 copies but doubtless there are more. No one hazards a guess at the authorship. A pencil note in the book states: “Anon see Bulletin du bibliophile 16 série p. 372. Comte d’I.†Aux dépens de la Compagnie hardcover books
170357338London: Nich. Cox 1703. 8vo pp. 216. Bound in contemporary calf little bent a very good copy. Pages 169-176 omitted from numbering English Short Title Catalog: T60536. On the "Camisards or Cevennois. This is the history of the Camisards rebellion 1702-1705 which carried on organized military resistance to the dragonnads or coversion by torture death and confiscation of property. See Britannica 11th edition vol. 5 pp. 113. Nich. Cox unknown books
1800042202Zutphen: W.C. Wansleven 1800. Softcover. Very Good Condition. An unusually well preserved copy of this early Dutch ABC book. Undated ca. early to mid 19th century. Printed on heavy paper folded with a red rooster on the verso of the title page and a woodcut of a classroom scene on the title. 16 pages printed on one sheet both sides 8 pages per side - probably never issued thus accounting for its condition. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042202. <br/><br/> W.C. Wansleven paperback books
17255740London: J Pottinger and J Seymour 1764 1725. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Fine. Light shelf/edge wear tips through minor scratch in paper front board else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound burgundy leather spine marbled paper boards. Small 8vo. 54pp plus 2pp ad. <br/><br/>A wonderfully unflattering short biography of the notorious Judge Jeffreys. Jeffreys infamously presided over the trial of Titus Oates and numerous other significant cases.bringing his unusual blend of apathy arrogance and brutality to the bench. It is said that he was "reckless of everything save his own advancement." This volume contains a list of some 240 names organized by towns of those who suffered his convictions. A very handsome copy of this minor classic. J Pottinger and J Seymour hardcover books
1763045560Madrid: Antonio Sanz 1763. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf wear at edges discoloration to boards old spine labels affixed. Small mostly faint dampstain to bottom right corner heavier to endpapers otherwise clean internally. 58pp Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 045560. <br/><br/> Antonio Sanz hardcover books
1785045481Madrid: Placido Barco Lopez 1785. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full vellum browned but sound. Endpapers with notes front pastedown missing a section old ink mark to title scattered foxing a nice clean copy generally. 279pp plus index. Early edition originally published in 1777 of a much reprinted manual. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books for Writers; Inventory No: 045481. <br/><br/> Placido Barco Lopez hardcover books
176548742Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis 1765. First Foulis edition 8vo pp. 597 21 table; modern quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards spine in 6 compartments with gilt rules and elaborate decorations stamped in blind maroon morocco label; trimmed toned at edges occasional spots overall a very good attractive copy. Gaskell 440. <br/><br/> printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover books
1747045437Berne: L'Imprimerie de Leurs Excellences 1747. First Edition. Hardcover Half Vellum. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes bound together in half vellum. Moderately foxed throughout heavier to the titles - both titles strengthened in the gutter with marbled paper. 62pp; 122pp plus table generale.Attractively printed with fine historiated initial letter. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Inventory No: 045437. <br/><br/> L'Imprimerie de Leurs Excellences hardcover books
1735279042Dublin: Samuel Fairbrother 1735. Regarding an important controversy over taxation of landed Protestants of Ireland by the Clergy. Many were forced by economics to sell their lands and leave; the result of this "tythe" was threat of mass emigration to America by the remaining Protestants. A report from an ad hoc committee of the Irish House of Commons called in 1735 to consider an important question on tax burden and emigration. Irish clergy had demanded an additional income from the imposition of a tax for "agistment" pasturage of cattle on Irish Protestant landowners. The committee decided after reviewing the evidence presented in this report that the tax would "impair the Protestant interest" by causing Protestants to emigrate to America reducing the influence of the established church in Ireland. It resolved to find a "proper remedy" though it took no legal action until the Irish House of Commons was dissolved in 1800 when the parliament in London forced an abolition of the old tithes as a formality. 8 folded quarto leaves in a folded drab portfolio. Samuel Fairbrother unknown books