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Best.-Nr. 52887 — Leide suivant la copie de Paris Pierre van der Aa Marchand Libraire1685. TITLE CONTINUED: Ouvrage tres utile & necessaire a toutes sortes de personnes pour la conservation de leur vie. Experimentez & composez par le Sieur d'Emery. DERNIERE EDITION beaucoup augmentee revue corigee et enrichie de tailles-douces. 1685 printed in Holland much enlarged revised and corrected in 2 parts the second part with its own title page French text 12mo approximately 140 x 80 mm 5½ x 3 inches engraved additional pictorial title page divided into compartments showing a kitchen gardening an artist's studio and the laboratory of an alchemist plus 8 ENGRAVED PLATES by A. Schoonebeek pages: 10 1-398 40; 2 441-648 followed by 16 pages of tables bound in full antique speckled calf expertly rebacked to match raised bands with blind rules gilt lettered red morocco label all edges speckled red. Covers very slightly worn slight wear to corners small bookplate on front pastedown small piece torn from 1 lower margin white line to 1 plate printing flaw contents very clean binding tight and firm. A very good copy. First published in Paris in 1674 with the title "Recueil de curiositez rares et nouvelles." also as a 12mo but with only 394 pages it is attributed by most libraries and reference books to French apothecary and physician Nicolas Lemery 1645-1715 but by some to Antoine Joseph Emery. It covers a great range of "secrets" including cookery cooking recipes and the conservation of meat and fish fruit flowers wine and vinegar recipes for cosmetics and perfumes for the preservation of health and treatment of ailments and diseases hints on household matters gardening hunting and fishing instructions for painting and gilding wood pottery and furniture for casting in plaster or bronze for counterfeiting marble plus a small section on fireworks with an illustration. See Bitting Gastronomic Bibliography page 144 Nicolas d'Emery; Vicaire Bibliographie Gastronomique 327; Ferguson Bibliotheca Chemica Volume II page 22; Ferguson Book of Secrets Part II page 57 Louis Lemery; Duveen Bibliotheca Chemica Volume II page 22; Wellcome Library Volume II page 522 A. J. Emery. The bookplate was that of Arthur Benomi Evans 1781-1854 a writer poet composer musician and linguist. He was appointed professor of classics and history to the Royal Military College in 1805. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Leide (suivant la copie de Paris), Pierre van der Aa, Marchand Libraire,1685. hardcover