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On the natural wealth of Germany and its exploitation

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Prosperitatis Germaniae. Pars prima [-Pars secunda]. In quâ de vini, frumenti, & ligni concentration, eorumque utiliore, quam hactenus, usu agitur. ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonnius, 1656-1657. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [10], 118; [4], 72 pp. Full description
€ 750
Agriculture Earth Sciences Gastronomy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Wine / Viticulture
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Glauber’s salt, the universal medicine, and wine making

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Consolatio navigantium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1657. 8vo.
With:
(2) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655.
(3) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de medicina universali, sive auro potabili vero, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.
(4) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Miraculi mundi continuatio, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658. With 3 engraved folding plates.
(5) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de natura salium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.
(6) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de signatura salium, metallorum, et planetarum, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.
6 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, gold fillets on spine and sides. 96; 28, [4 blank]; 75, [2], [3 blank]; 133, [3 blank]; [16], 96; 44, [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Alchemy Gastronomy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Physics & Chemistry Wine / Viticulture
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Recipes and suppers following the seasons, pickling vegetables and brewing your own beer:
an all-round cookery book

HENDERSON, William Augustus. The housekeepers instructor; or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... Likewise the making and keeping to perfection British wines, and proper rules for brewing malt liquor. ... To which is added the complete art of carving.
London, W. & J. Stratford, [ca 1790?]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates (2 folding), mostly showing carving techniques or how to arrange the dishes on the table during suppers. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, red morocco spine label. 456, [24] pp. Full description
€ 600
Wine / Viticulture
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10 Mediaeval works on health, medicine, food and wine in a rare early edition, including notes by Ibn Sina

IBN SINA (AVICENNA), Maynus de MAYNIS, Arnaldus de VILLANOVA, [Roger BACON] et al. Regimen sanitatis Magnini Mediolanensis ... Insuper opusculu[m] De flebothomia editum ... Reginaldo de Villa Nova. Additur quoq[ue] Astronomia Hippocratis ... de variis egritudinibus et morbis. Item Secreta Hippogratis. Item Averrois De venenis. Ite[m] Quid pro quo apothecariorum ... Nicolaum ... Cum no[n]nullis insuper Avicenne: ...
[Lyon, Barthélemy Trot] (colophon: Lyon, printed by Jacques Myt, 6 February 1517). Small 4to (19 x 14 cm). With title-page in red and black with Trot's woodcut publisher's device, 12 decorated woodcut initials plus 3 repeats. 17th-century(?) calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. CI, [3] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Wine / Viticulture
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Fourth edition of an English cookery book especially devoted to desserts

JARRIN, Guillermo A. The Italian confectioner; or complete economy of desserts, according to the most modern and approved practice. ... New edition, revised and enlarged.
London, John Ebers & Co. (back of title-page: printed by William Clowes), 1829. 12mo. With lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. [2], VIII, [2], IX-XXX, 240 pp. Full description
€ 550
Italy
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Detailed and lavishly illustrated memoirs of travels in the Caribbean

LABAT, Jean-Baptiste. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America.
Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. 4 volumes bound as 2. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 11 folding engraved maps and plans, and 83 full-page plates. Contemporary polished half calf. [2], 18, 350; [1 blank], [1], 404; [2], 235, 254; [1 blank], [4], 200, 167, [32] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Faunas & General Zoology Latin America Middle America Slavery South America Technology Travel & Voyages South America West Indies
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On bread and bread-making

MANETTI, Saverio. Delle specie diverse di frumento e di pane siccome della panizzazione.
Florence, Moücke f. Giovacchino Pagani, 1765. 4to. Bound in contemporary 'carta rustica', faded manuscript title to spine. (8), 237, (3) pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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Guidelines for the perfect dinner

MASON, Charlotte. The ladys assistant for regulating and supplying the table; being a complete system of cookery. Containing the most select bills of fare, properly disposed, for family dinners of five dishes to two courses of eleven and fifteen ... likewise directions for brewing, making English wines ... the ninth edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved to the present time.
London, printed by T. Gillet for Vernor and Hood [and many others], 1805. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked. IV, [16], 422, 26, [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
Wine / Viticulture Women History
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