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The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened Whereby is Discovered Several Ways for Making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &C. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery as also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &C... published by his son's consent. The third edition corrected by Digby, Kenelme, Sir (1603-1665)

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Title
The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened Whereby is Discovered Several Ways for Making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &C. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery as also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &C... published by his son's consent. The third edition corrected
Author
Digby, Kenelme, Sir (1603-1665)
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
London: Printed by H.C. [Henry Cruttenden] for H. Brome, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1677. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), [2], 251, [8] pages. Table of contents at rear. Printer's name from Wing. ~ Stated Third Edition corrected, first published in 1669. A classic of seventeenth-century English food writing that belies the author's youthful adventures as handsome courtier, ardent lover, swordsman, pirate, and possible double agent. Later, more serious pursuits include those of naval administrator, scientist, inventor, bibliophile, philosopher, literary executor of Ben Johnson's estate, and founding member of the Royal Society. Digby is also considered the father of the modern wine bottle following his revolutionary manufacturing process that produced a sturdier bottle with a tinted glass that protected the wine from natural light. His cookbook, published after his death and the achievement for which he is best remembered, was based on his manuscript notes and recipes recorded over several years when he devoted himself fully to the pleasures of the table. Today considered a valuable source of period recipes for both beverages (mead, wine, and ale of many types) (pages 1-128) and food and conserves (pages 129-312). This oft-cited work contains what may be the first printing of several modern day staples, including the combination of bacon and eggs for breakfast. Literate and entertaining, Digby's writing still enchants. Internally sound and clean. In later half-calf over marbled boards, with five raised bands and gilt-titled red morocco spine label. Bookplate of the Craig Collection. Scarce. [OCLC locates fifteen copies; Cagle 646; Une Affaire du Gout 70; ESTC R010652; Wing D1429].
The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. Third Edition

The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. Third Edition by YOUNGHUSBAND, Frank E. [Capt]

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The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. Third Edition
Author
YOUNGHUSBAND, Frank E. [Capt]
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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London: John Murray, 1896. Third edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xx,[1]-409pp; frontispiece portrait and 17 inserted leaves of plates (halftones); three folding maps inserted in the text, a fourth ("Map of the North Western Frontier of India Showing the Pamir Region and Part of Afghanistan") in rear pocket. Old (and apparently unnecessary) celo-tape reinforcements to hinges; small tape repair to rear map-pocket, but still an attractive, well-preserved copy, straight and sound, with text clean and unmarked - Very Good or better. The folding maps are all present and in good condition; the large folding map of India with pin-point perforations at fold-lines, else quite fresh and clean, Near Fine. Printed bookplate on verso of front flyleaf of the Oregon journalist Gwladys Bowen (1893-1991), with brief pencil gift inscription dated 1974. The third of three London editions, all in the same year (1896). The book is actually a collection of five separate expeditions made by Younghusband over the course of a decade. The first, made in 1884 when he was barely twenty-one years old, was a two-month journey from Rawalpindi north to the Kulu Valley and the Rhotang Pass "in search of the memory of his uncle, Robert Barkley Shaw" who, some twenty years earlier, had become "the first European to enter the city of Kashgar and in so doing had become one of Younghusband's boyhood heroes" (see HOWGEGO III:1021ff).
The Librarian from the Black Lagoon

The Librarian from the Black Lagoon by THALER, Mike

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The Librarian from the Black Lagoon
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THALER, Mike
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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9780590503112
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New York: Scholastic Inc, 1997. Jared LEE. [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED] [JUVENILE] [HUMOR]. Jared LEE, illustrator. Later printing. 8vo square; [28]pp; red glazed pictorial boards featuring a surprised child on the front, rear board has publisher's ad for other Black Lagoon books; inscription and small drawing in blue marker on verso ffep "To Barbara" signed by the author and dated "2006"; pictorial title page; color illustrations with text throughout; fine. ISBN: 0-590-50311-1. A very funny account of an elementary school-aged child's fear of visiting the library.

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