23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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['W.M.']
The Queens Closet Opened. Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving and Candying, &c. Which were Presented unto the Queen: By the most Experienced Persons of the times.
Printed for Nath. Brooke and sold by Tho. Guy, 1674;
A Queens Delight or The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right Knowledge of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent Waters.
Printed by F. Leach for Nat. Brooks, to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1675;
The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing The most Ready Wayes Whether Italian, Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering of Sauces or Making of Pastry.
Printed by F. Leach for Nat. Brooks, to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1675;
Three parts bound as one, each with separate title page and pagination, but continuous register, duodecimo, [xii], 190, [8], 106, [4], 123, [7] pages, including portrait frontis to first part, lower corner of B6 torn with loss of several letters, loss to final five leaves (possibly by insect), sporadic staining throughout, manuscript notes to fly leaf and recto of frontis, well worn leather binding, boards detached.
Sold for £480
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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