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Lot 363

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 - 700
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$8,125
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[COOKERY]. Manuscript cookbook and home remedy guide, 18th century.


4to (225 x 175 mm). 120 pp. in at least two hands, comprising approximately 500 recipes and several home remedies. (A few tiny wormholes, some minor staining.) Contemporary sprinkled English panelled calf (upper joint separated, some overall wear). Provenance: George Folliott (bookplate); unintelligible signatures (1964). 

Recipes include oyster pie, gold hash, buttered crab, roast lobster, pickled trout, oyster loaves, French leg of mutton, olive florindine, spring garden beef, Westfalia ham, pickled goose, quince cakes, various wines and numerous cheesecakes.  Remedies are included "For the Itch," "A Drink for Rickits," "For Worms," "For Ahsma," and "A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog."

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