Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 593
  • 593

MOFFETT, Thomas

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Description

  • MOFFETT, Thomas
  • Healths Improvement; or Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation. Preparing All Sorts of Food. London: by Thom. Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the White Horse, 1655
  • ink, paper, leather
4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 ins.; 181 x 131 mm). Some offsetting to blanks, else very fine. Contemporary calf; worn at spine head, foot of spine restored.

Provenance

acquisition: Charles W. Traylen

Literature

 Wing M 2382; ESTC R202888; Vicaire 613

Catalogue Note

First edition.  Some marginal notes in contemporary hand accompany a recipe for cod. While primarily a work on nutrition for the layman, the present is the first work to list British wild fowl and comment on their migrations.