Lot 247

Cookery.- M[ontagu] (W[alter]) The Queens Closet Opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving and candying, &c, 3 parts in 1 vol., 1674.

 

Hammer Price: £2,600

Description

Cookery.- M[ontagu] (W[alter]) The Queens Closet Opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving and candying, &c, 3 parts in 1 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, a few short marginal repairs, the odd ff. partly adhering to its facing counterpart, some light creasing or occasional toning to margins, but a good, clean copy generally, ink inscription to endpaper, modern calf, [Wing M102; cf. Simon 1239; Cagle 838-840], 12mo, for Nath. Brooke, 1674.

⁂ A rare edition, ESTC lists 4 copies copies in the UK and 1 in the US. In three parts: "The Queen's cabinet opened, or, The pearl of practice", "A Queen's delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying" and "The compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish or French, for dressing of flesh and fish".

Description

Cookery.- M[ontagu] (W[alter]) The Queens Closet Opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving and candying, &c, 3 parts in 1 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, a few short marginal repairs, the odd ff. partly adhering to its facing counterpart, some light creasing or occasional toning to margins, but a good, clean copy generally, ink inscription to endpaper, modern calf, [Wing M102; cf. Simon 1239; Cagle 838-840], 12mo, for Nath. Brooke, 1674.

⁂ A rare edition, ESTC lists 4 copies copies in the UK and 1 in the US. In three parts: "The Queen's cabinet opened, or, The pearl of practice", "A Queen's delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying" and "The compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish or French, for dressing of flesh and fish".

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