900 Secrets, Recettes, Procédés, et Remèdies

£500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

only one other known copy A scarce Avignon-printed commonplace book containing 900 secret recipes and remedies, ranging from instructions on making sulphuric acid to the preservation of artichokes. Rare. We can trace just once copy in institutional collections worldwide, at the Bibliothèque National de France. 16mo (15 x 9 cm); engraved frontispiece, text in French in four sections, each with its own Table de Matières, torn with small loss to fore-edge margin pp81-82 just into text-block, minor spotting; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, loss to spine ends and corners rubbed, but boards are firmly attached; vi (including frontis), 7-390pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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