£2,772
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
"Jane Kirby, her book, January 19th, 1737", [c.1737-1752], 132pp., 4to, comprising 25 pages of medicinal cures (including 1 for Blackin of Shoes), and 107 pages of recipes; medicinal cures including For the Kings Evil, Tea for ye Pox or Pains in ye Loynes, For ye Biting of a Mad Dog, A Milke Water Ante Scirbutick & Good for a Historical Fever, A Chollick Water, To Haisten Labour, To make Snail Water, Worm Powder, &c; recipes include To Make Queen Cakes, Cowslip Wine, Marmalade of Oranges, Rastberry Cakes, Oringe & Lemon Cakes, Carroway Cake, Candy any flowers, an Oatemeal Pudding, Almond Jumballs, Ise a Cake, Wiggs, Rice Pancakes, Egg Pye, Mead, Calves Foot Pye &c. , neatly written most of the way, messily written at the end, contemporary panelled vellum, later gift inscriptions to front endpaper and first leaf dated 1893 and 1895, binding lightly soiled