Milk & dairy products.- Martin (Barthélemy) Traité du lait, du choix qu’on en doit faire, & de la manière d’en user, second edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title working loose, F2 small piece from outer margin, R8 small hole in text, with loss of a few letters, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, joints splitting but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Cagle 314; Vicaire 571; Cf. Bitting, p. 312 (1699 & note)], 12mo, Paris, Laurent d’Houry, 1706.
⁂ Rare little work. Includes butter, cheeses, and the medicinal uses of milk. This corrected and augmented edition is preceded only by the first of 1684 and a reprint of that in 1699.
Please Login or Register to request further information and images