Lot 25
Medical.- Recettes Medicales, manuscript in French with some Dutch insertions, [c. early 17th century].
Estimate: £800 - 1,200
Description
Medical.- Recettes Medicales, manuscript in French with some Dutch insertions, 130pp. excluding blanks, plus 8pp. Index at end, dark brown ink, lacking title and/or first leaf of text, each leaf numbered to upper corner (beginning with leaf numbered 2), some small worm holes or traces within text, ink show-through, spotting, browned throughout, inscription "Livre precieux" and 19th-century bookplate with motto "Quaero" to inside upper wrapper, later ?18th-century wrappers, "Recettes Medicales" in ink to upper wrapper, loss to spine, creased and rather worn, folio (320 x 190mm)., [c. early 17th century].
⁂ Remedies and recipes including "pour maladies du coeur", "pour ceulx qui ont le pale coleur", "pour sourdite d'aureilles", "pour oter puanteur de bouche" &c.
Description
Medical.- Recettes Medicales, manuscript in French with some Dutch insertions, 130pp. excluding blanks, plus 8pp. Index at end, dark brown ink, lacking title and/or first leaf of text, each leaf numbered to upper corner (beginning with leaf numbered 2), some small worm holes or traces within text, ink show-through, spotting, browned throughout, inscription "Livre precieux" and 19th-century bookplate with motto "Quaero" to inside upper wrapper, later ?18th-century wrappers, "Recettes Medicales" in ink to upper wrapper, loss to spine, creased and rather worn, folio (320 x 190mm)., [c. early 17th century].
⁂ Remedies and recipes including "pour maladies du coeur", "pour ceulx qui ont le pale coleur", "pour sourdite d'aureilles", "pour oter puanteur de bouche" &c.
