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Lot 1550
Box of Mixed Collectibles comprising Henkes VO Pottery Bottle; 2 x Bols Porcelain Bottles; Tin Plate Shell Petrol Pump; Brandy Decanter & Stopper in opaque and ruby glass; round terracotta decorated vase; wooden box with painted flowers and butterflies; boxed original Rubik's Cube; 2 x M & S white vegetable serving dishes; 2 x small crystal glass bud vases; 2 vintage match strikers; boxed Nematices Lighter; a pair of gentleman's souvenir Concorde cuff links; a collection of glassware; two canvas carrying cases; and a wine holder with wine. Please see photographs.
Lot 98
Victorian Period Stunning and Large Solid Silver ' Cellini ' Designed Wine Ewer of Wonderful Proportions - A 19th Century Victorian Sterling Silver ' Cellini ' Pattern Ewer, So Called In The Honor of ' Benvenuto Cellini ' The Sculpture and Goldsmith of the 16th Century, Considered The Greatest of All Time. The Jug Is Heavy, Beautifully Chased and Embossed with Decoration of Masks, Animals, Strap Work, and Flutes, Caryatid Ornate Scroll Handle, Parcel Gilt. Impressed Number 7183 to Base. The Jug Is Hallmarked for London 1881 and Makers Mark for Stephen Smith. Silver Weight 45 ozs. Size 16 Inches - 40 cm Tall. All Aspects of Condition Are Excellent - Please Confirm with Photo.
Lot 16
DIGBY (KENELM)The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. Opened, whereby is Discovered Several Ways for Making of Metheglin, Syder, Cherry-Wine etc., together with Excellent Directions for Cookery, as also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying etc., Published by his Son's Consent, third edition, some foxing and browning throughout, 1881 ownership inscription on title partially erased, later calf preserving most of original side panels, spine gilt [ESTC R10652; Bitting p.124-5; Oxford p.34-5], small 8vo, H[enry] C[ruttenden] for H. Brome, 1677Footnotes:'The peculiarity of this book is the number of recipes for making drinks. There are nearly fifty recipes for making meath, and as many for making metheglin... There is a recipe for making tea with eggs, and a warning against leaving tea to stand too long. 'The water is to remain upon it no longer than whiles you can say the Miserere Psalm very leisurely'' (Oxford).Provenance: J.W. Sanders, armorial bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 33
JENKS (JAMES)The Complete Cook: Teaching the Art of Cookery in all its Branches; and to Spread a Table, in a Useful, Substantial and Splendid Manner, at all Seasons in the Year... with an Appendix Teaching the Art of Making Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub... For the Use of Families, FIRST EDITION, last 2 leaves browned at edges, contemporary sheep, extremities worn, joints cracked, small chip at foot of spine [ESTC T91233; Bitting p.245; Maclean p.75; Oxford pp.97-98], 8vo, E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1768Footnotes:Relatively scarce household manual and receipt book, including 'dishes for Lent and Fast-days', 'Real and Mock Turtle' and sections on distilling, brewing, the management of poultry and bees (title-page). One other edition followed, published in Dublin the following year.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 41
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK – EAST ANGLIAN QUAKERSCulinary and medicinal receipt book, in several hands, margins double-ruled in red, comprising receipts such as 'To Make a ffrygace of Chicking', 'To make a Quere of Paper', 'Green Bean Pudding' ('...Please do put in a littel salt...'), 'To Kebab a Loyn of Mutton', 'To Pickle Purslin', 'To Cuer a Pipe of Wine', 'To make white pudings in Gutts Samuells Way', 'To Make Sheeps Pudings', 'To Make Minst Pies my mothers Way', 'To preserve 4 Lemons whole. 10mo 1851', 'for any fitts madnes or an extrem pane in ye head', 'To Make Red Surfit Water', 'To make a Leaden Plaister', 'Isbell Browninge's water for fistulas or any old running sores', many attributed ('Emma Alexander', 'M. Corder'), with various newspaper cuttings and loose recipes, two pinned in, two loose sheets inserted, one a tracing of the watermark with heading 'The Alexander family's Recipe Book', the other notes on plague water on blue paper watermarked 1881 endorsed 'written by my mother Mary Ann Corder... in the ancient Alexander family Recipe Book' and signed 'Henry Corder', and a letter of authentication from the Victoria & Albert Museum dated March 1942, 272 numbered pages, c.65 pages with text, on paper watermarked with fleur de lis within a shield surmounted by a crown with maker's initials 'AJ', other pages watermarked 'CDC', several pages excised, staining and signs of use, small loss to first leaf, contemporary black morocco, covers gilt with central frame and foliate devices at corners, marbled endpapers, rubbed, upper joint cracking, repaired where clasp missing, folio (364 x 230mm.), c.1700 onwardsFootnotes:'THE ANCIENT ALEXANDER FAMILY RECIPE BOOK': A note with this volume confirms it was in the possession of Henry Corder (1855-1944) of Bridgwater, Somerset, seedsman and nurseryman, member of the Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society and British Astronomical Association, who inherited it from his mother Mary Ann Corder, née Alexander. The marriage of his parents in 1850, Mary Ann Alexander (1815-1913) of Goldrood House, Belstead, Suffolk and draper Henry Shewell Corder (1814-1912) of Ipswich, brought together two well-established and respected East Anglian Quaker families; the Alexanders, wealthy Quaker bankers, and the Corders, family of educationalist and Quaker biographer Susanna Corder, who also had connections to the Gurneys of Norfolk (indeed, a J.J. Gurney is credited here with a recipe for 'Rögröd. 'The Crowning dish of Scandinavia''). Mary Ann and her family were the subject of several photographs by relative and pioneer of photography Richard Dykes Alexander in the late 1850's. This collection of family recipes appears to date from the early years of the Alexander banking dynasty and may well have come from the household of Samuel Alexander, who founded the Needham Market Bank in 1744. With a number of branches throughout the county, it eventually became one of the banks merged to form Barclay & Co. in 1896. Life at the Alexander family home, Goldrood, was depicted in a series of charming watercolours by Mary Ann painted between 1840-50 and published in 2013 by her great granddaughter (Joan Jackman, Goldrood: The History of a Quaker Family), including such scenes as Miss Fisk in the back kitchen preparing food and Miss Dawson in the pantry, the larder and the bacon closet.Provenance: Alexander family of Suffolk, thence by descent to Henry Corder. Sold by the family at Christie's, 29 May 1986.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 42
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK – MURRAY FAMILY OF SCOTLANDCulinary receipt book of Catherine Fincastle, bearing her ownership inscription ('Catherine Fincastle') and the date ('1836'), kept by her and in several other hands, containing recipes such as 'Arrow root & apple Pudding', 'Russian Cabbage Soup', 'Koulibak or Russian Fish Pie', 'Russian pancakes', 'Wilton Plumb Cake', 'Betseys cold sauce for Fish', 'Salting Russian Cucumbers', 'Curacoa', 'Elder flower Wine to be made in June', 'Italian Receipt for Niocchi', 'Lord Haddington's Scons', 'Chicken Custard', 'Louisa Pudding', 'Lady Murray's way of making Coffee', 'Small Gingerbread cakes shaped like hats', two entries crossed out, index at end, 112 numbered pages, some spotting, endpapers stained and marked, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, upper cover lettered in gilt with gilt coronet and initials C.F., rubbed, inner hinges split, 8vo (190 x 130mm.), 1836 onwards; with a late nineteenth century manuscript recipe book bearing the monogram of Gertrude Coke; and another, dated 1844, including verses by Felicia Hemans and others written out amongst the receipts (3)Footnotes:RECEIPT BOOK OF CATHERINE MURRAY, COUNTESS OF DUNMORE, PROMOTER OF THE HARRIS TWEED INDUSTRY, dating from her marriage to Alexander Murray, Viscount Fincastle in 1836. She was to bear the name Catherine Fincastle only for a short time as her husband acceded to the earldom of Dunmore a few months later. Many of the recipes herein reflect her Russian heritage; her mother (also Catherine) was the daughter of Semyon Romanovich, Count Vorontsov, Russian ambassador to the Court of St James. In 1845, on the death of her husband, she inherited the Dunmore estate on the Isle of Harris, where, in a time of great economic hardship '...She recognized the quality of the tweeds made by the women of Harris, and perceived the sales potential of the fabric... The Harris tweed industry owes its development and subsequent success substantially to her action and inspiration.' (Christine Lodge, ODNB). The second recipe book included in the lot, which contains several recipes copied from the first, bears the monogram of Gertrude Coke, third daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd earl of Leicester, of Holkham, Norfolk, who married Catherine's son Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th earl of Dunmore in April 1866.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 44
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - LAURENCE STERNE & YORKSHIRERecipe and household book kept by the Croft family of Stillington Hall, North Yorkshire, written in several hands, including several French and Indian recipes, some attributed ('Lady Fauconberg', 'Mrs Vansburg', 'Mrs Earle', 'Mrs Schaah', 'Miss Cholmley', 'Mrs Cheap', 'Miss Farrer', 'Sir J Sinclair President of the Royal Society'), including 'To make Royal Pancakes', 'To make Cazan Butter', 'Crème á la Madeleine', 'Crème au Petit Pain', 'Langnes de Mouton en Papoillotes' 'Duke of Norfolks Punch', 'Ham loaves', 'Treacle Beer', 'Indian Pickle', 'Receipt for Curry', 'To make a Bardawan Stew', 'Maid of Honor Cheese Cake', 'To Preserve Pineapples whole', 'To make a Buxton Pudding', 'Mrs Haslers receipt for a thick cream cheese' ('...take the mornings milk of 7 cows & the nights cream of 7 cows...'), 'To make Raisin wine' (' ...to one hundred weight of Raisins put twenty gallons of Water... add to it one gallon of French Brandy...'), some annotated ('excellent', 'a very pretty dish for supper', 'Mrs Croft a good one'); with household and medicinal receipts, ('To make and use Sand Paint', 'Mr Hays Prescription for Miss Crofts Eyes', 'To wash Cotton Stockings', 'To Clean Boots', 'Nervous Tincture'), two veterinary ('A Receipt for a Horse in the Gripes', 'To cure the Red water in Cattle'), accounts recording the cost of a three week journey to Scarborough ('...Bathing 2.6 a Time came to £2 10s 6d/ Stillington to Malton 17 miles 3 hours... Turnpikes for the Coach... 5d to go down upon the Sands...'), instructions for the planting and management of a Sea Kale bed ('...the bed should be made in December or as soon after as may be to temper with the weather... a bed will keep producing for six years it must be earthed up every year...') and hints to prevent the new pottery from Josiah Wedgwood's factory from spoiling ('...Pot Pouporee from the Carmelites at Paris... I would advise when you put them in jars in your Rooms never to put them in any thing but China as the Salt Penetrates through the Wedgwood Ware & soon moulders it away...'); some pages at end inverted; with indices, a page of handwriting exercises, a note of the birth dates of the Croft children, newspaper cuttings from the 1770's to 1790's stuck in (includes cutting from The Repository of a letter to the editor from Philologer of Sillington, 7 December 1773'), a note of 'Brydges & Walker/ Lacemen/ at the three Crowns the Corner/ of Bedford Street Covent Garden/ London' and other pencil notes on front flyleaf, indistinct ownership inscription ('Mrs Croft...') in ink on front board, c.280 pages, some pages excised, browning, staining and signs of wear, one or two small worm holes and some losses and small tears, contemporary vellum, worn, 4to (200 x 160mm.), mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuryFootnotes:'AT STILLINGTON THE FAMILY OF THE CROFTS SHOWED US EVERY KINDNESS': RECEIPT BOOK FROM THE HOUSEHOLD OF LAURENCE STERNE'S NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS, THE CROFTS OF STILLINGTON.Laurence Sterne wrote his literary masterpiece, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman whilst incumbent of St Nicholas Church, Stillington, Yorkshire, a position he held from 1745 until his death in 1768. Although revered in London and Parisian society after its publication, he remained unpopular in his home parish – maybe because he chose to reside in Sutton-in-the-Forest, two miles away, or maybe due to his preference for shooting and other less salubrious pursuits over his ecclesiastical duties. However, he did become close friends with the Croft family at Stillington and Stephen Croft (1712-1798) became an intimate friend and correspondent, who helped Sterne and his wife out financially, as well as championing his works in Yorkshire society and giving him the means to travel to London to promote his book. As Sterne himself writes: 'I remained twenty years at Sutton, doing duty at both places. I had then very good health. Books, painting, fiddling and shooting were my amusements... at Stillington the family of the C__s showed us every kindness; 't was most truly agreeable to be within a mile and a half of an amiable family who were every cordial friends.' (Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to his Most Intimate Friends, Vol. I, 1776, p.8.). Indeed Croft is widely credited with saving the manuscript of Tristram Shandy from certain destruction. After a fine dinner at Stillington, Sterne chose to read an early draft of his novel to the assembled company. Replete with food and wine, the audience, so the story goes, '...fell asleep, at which Sterne was so nettled that he threw the Manuscript into the fire, and had not luckily Mr Croft rescued the scorched papers from the flames, the work wou'd have been consigned to oblivion.' (John Croft, 'Anecdotes of Sterne vulgarly Tristram Shandy' in The Whitefoord Papers, ed. WAS Hewins, Oxford, 1898). Stephen's brother John Croft also comments in his Anecdotes that Sterne was a 'constant Guest at my brother's Table' (Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne, A Life, Oxford, 2013, p.101) and, although much of this volume seems to date from after Sterne's time at Stillington, it would however be interesting to speculate whether he sampled any of the receipts included herein.A member of the famous Croft wine-shipping dynasty, Stephen Croft rebuilt Stillington Hall to much admiration, 'was not only an active Whig but also a man who shared Sterne's tastes in painting, music, and literature: in years to come he could commission Joshua Reynolds to paint his portrait [and] act as a director of the York Assembly Rooms...' (Campbell Ross, p.101).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 45
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - LANCASHIREFarmhouse recipe notebook of 'Lena Wadsworth, Catteralls Farm, Clayton le Dale, Nr Blackburn', written in several hands, including culinary and household receipts, such as 'How to make cracklins', 'Wedding Cake', 'Colts Foot Wine', 'Funeral Biscuits', 'To clean a house that is filthy', 'Yorkshire Puddin' ('...When serving Yorkshire Pudding, have it first & gravey thickened with flour serve potatoes ect after and rice or sago pudding last...'), 'For a Swelling', 'For a cow that as a very bad cold', with contributions from friends, family and neighbours ('William Appletree', 'Mrs Yates's Mother', 'Aunt Sally', 'Miss Taylor, Hebden Bridge'), index, some pages excised, 132 pages, browned and stained throughout, black calf with brass clasp, worn with some losses, oblong 8vo (97 x 162mm.), late nineteenth/early twentieth century; together with 'Receipt book belonging to Mrs Ellis Everett/ To be carefully used', endorsed 'inherited the above Recipe Book from her Grandmother Mrs Ellis Everett née Gertrude Walker/ 1941', with ownership inscription and date '1897' inside, comprising culinary recipes such as 'Adelaide Sandwiches', 'Snow Cake', 'Queen Mabs Pudding', 'Scotch Woodcock', 'Profitte Rolls', 'Gunner's delight', index at end, various newspaper cuttings stuck in throughout, some loose recipes, 137 numbered pages, stained and worn, cloth with homemade brown paper dust-jacket, frayed with loss, 8vo ( 176 x 110mm.), c.1897 to 1940's; Butcher's recipe book, including recipes for sausages, white and black pudding, peas pudding, pork pies, suckling pig, brawn, etc., list of sauces, manufacturers and accounts reversed at rear, c.220 pages (c.70 blank), original vellum pocket account book with clasp, stained, 8vo (180 x 110mm.), early twentieth century; and another culinary recipe book containing some 80 recipes, with thumb index ('Soups', 'Fish', 'Savouries', 'Jams' etc.), c.300 pages (mostly blank), brown calf gilt, c.1912 (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 47
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK – DURHAMHousehold recipe book, bearing the ownership inscriptions of 'Henrietta Wharton' with 'Old Park' written in another hand on inside front board, and that of her husband 'Richd Wharton Old Park/ Neigh Bpp Auckland' on inside leaf, comprising culinary and medicinal receipts in several hands, including 'Raspberry Wine equal to Burgundy', ' Yorkshire Cakes', 'Poor Squires', 'Worcestershire Rolls', 'Charcoal Soup', 'Lady Delaware's Orange Puddings', 'White Catchup Old Park', the 'Receipt for Sally Lunns Mrs Needs' Bakers at Bath' is illustrated with a diagram ('...The mode of buttering her is extremely material. She must be cut horizontally into three, buttered, & then divided into quarters... after which Sally must be put into the oven again for a few minutes... Her form is so regular that perhaps she is baked in a tin...'), 'To keep butter two years', 'Brain Sauce', 'To cure frozen Limbs', 'To prevent colours running in Washing', 'Cure for the bite of a Cobra di Capello', 'Opening Pills', 'Method of destroying the Putrid smell which meat acquires during hot weather', 'Stone color – Auckland Castle', 'For making Leather Water proof', some later recipes attributed with names or initials ('Mrs Rt Wharton', 'O.P.', 'Mrs Ingilby'); household notes including instructions for weaving ('...Kitchen table cloths sheet 9d Pound spun to 20 cuts N.B. Mrs Hutchinson wheel is 5 quarters long...'), the names of tradesmen ('Wallis & Vasey... Flax-dresser/ John Kidd Newcastle'), and a 'receipt for boiling yarn' ('...let the yarn be well covered and boil it slowly... let it be well rubbed between the hands, ant beat upon a table to make it smooth...'), index at end, last two leaves inverted, 149 leaves, 65 blanks, browning, spotting and usual wear, contemporary quarter calf, defective, c.1792 onwardsFootnotes:Richard Wharton (c.1764-1828) of Old Park, Durham, was the second son of Thomas Wharton (d.1794), physician and close friend of the poet Thomas Gray (indeed it was from Old Park that Gray embarked on his tour of the Lakes in 1769). He married Henrietta, daughter of James Farrer of Clapham, Yorkshire, in June 1792. That she signs her ownership inscription with her married name would therefore suggest that date as a terminus post quem for this volume. Richard Wharton was a barrister and served as MP for Durham from 1802-4 and 1806-20, was sometime chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, joint Secretary of the Treasury and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Samuel Egerton Brydges described him as a man of 'quick talents, much literature, and most pleasing manners, hospitable and open; a man of the world, of a handsome person and benevolent expression'. It would appear he lived at Old Park as the tenant of his elder brother, Robert.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 48
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOKHousekeeping and recipe book, titled 'Receipt Book' in ink on front board, containing culinary and medicinal receipts in several hands, many acknowledging their source, including 'To make the Alsom Wine; Lady Chandois's Receipt', 'Mrs Willis's Receipt to make a green Agl that is good for sprains and bruises', 'An oatmeal pudding... We make it with little better than new milk & do not put in the full quantity of butter', 'To preserve a pumpkin, Lady Guildford', another from 'Lord Kiladaire's cook', 'To dress a calves head like Turtle, Lady Skipwith', 'Spinnage Toasts', 'Girdler's Seed Cake', 'My little boys cake' and 'To make the best sausages in the world', interspersed with medicinal recipes such as 'Gout cordial', 'Mrs Pyms Receipt to destroy bugs', one annotated 'Mrs Madden's little boys life saved... he had all the worst simptoms'; plus some 29 pages of inventories dating from 1732 to 1793, pertaining to stocks of 'kitching things taken by Simper at Woodberry' ('...10 hand candlesticks... 5 high candlesticks... 4 coffee pots 3 of them mine... 1 chocolate pot mine (the old one put in store rooms)... cheese toaster... shaving pot', pewter (for best '3 Large Dishes engrav'd with a large crest...'), and other items 'for the use of servants...', including '3 Boyling pots... 5 spits... 1 lark spit... 1 pair of waffle tongs... 2 Drudging Box's... 1 pepper box... 1 coxcomb cutter...'; inventories and charts relating to household linen and weaving ('...2 Fine Bird's Eye Table Cloths... 4 small layovers very old... 6 long Huckaback Towels... 39 pillow cases...'), endpapers with notes of suppliers ('J Bruckner Shoe maker 32 King Street Portman Squ... Mrs Greenfull on Great Russell Street next door by the Boor Inn sells fans thred & tape etc... Glapes magnesia to be bought at Mr Davis's Bookseller in Piccadilly'), some entries inverted, other receipts stuck or pinned in, some loose, c.180 leaves [c.50 blank], some browning and spotting, worm holes affecting six leaves, contemporary stiff vellum, bowing and stained, 4to (230 x 180mm.), 1726 and laterFootnotes:'DAMASK COSTS 14 A SQUARE YD – NAPKINS 3D EACH... IT IS BETTER TO HAVE A TABLE CLOTH & NAPKINS WOVE AT THE SAME TIME AND THE PATTERN MUST BE THE SAME AS THE LOOM IS SET FOR': the daughter of the house practices good household economy. Whilst there is no ownership inscription in this volume, it appears to have been in the possession of the daughter of a wealthy, well-connected family (one of the inventories is of her father's plate). Her receipts come from a plethora of illustrious names, Lady Skipwith, Lord Kildare and Lady Chandos, to name but three, and she manages the linen and plate for a house in the country, Woodberry, and in town at Henrietta Street. The culinary receipts are a mixture of the fanciful designed to impress ('To dress a calves head like a turtle') and the domestic ('My little boys cake'). In addition there are several pages of inventories in various hands ranging in date from 1726 to the end of the century, meticulous record keeping accounting for every item. Whilst the best linen was of the fine Irish sort, she oversaw the weaving, presumably locally, of everyday material, noting 'Lockhit – Weaver – Donnington near Newbury – Berks – send the thread in March...'. From these pages we also know the names of the family's servants and their favoured suppliers, notably a Mr Bruckner, shoe maker of 32 King Street, who advertised himself in the later years of the eighteenth century as fine shoe-maker to her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia but, according to the London Gazette succumbed to bankruptcy in 1807.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 49
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOKBook of culinary receipts written in several late seventeenth and eighteenth century hands many with attractive calligraphic headings, including recipes for 'Marmalade of Rasberrys or Currants', 'To Preserve Garlick', 'Plum Paste', 'To make Mushrooms' ('...The Goosberrys will be as white as sugar & your barberrys of a Fine Red... box them up for a very Gentell Sweet Meat...'), 'Cleare Cakes', 'Orange Chipes', 'To Make Chocolat', 'Shrewsbury Jumballs', 'Dutch Biskett', 'A Good Plum Cake', 'Spirit of Oranges', 'Guniper Water' ('...And this water is good for old and weak stomacks its good for the wind in the stomack and other parts of the body...'), 'Benjamine Water', 'Syrup of Poppies' ('This is a good cordial to cause sleep...'), 'Raspberry or Gilliflower Wine', 'Hedghogg Pudding', 'To make Liverings', 'Stump Pye', 'To dress a codes Head', 'Oyster Loafes', 'Gravey to keep', 'To pickle sparrowgrass', later recipes written in a close hand with more medicinal remedies ('Oyle of Charity', 'For the Kings Evil & to Sweeten the Blood', 'Wound drink'), includes eight pages headed 'Bills of Fares', listing ideas for first and second courses, illustrated with two diagrams of dishes within decorative borders suggesting how they should be laid on the table, two tables awaiting completion, one later recipe tipped in, possible ownership inscription 'Ths [?] Hayes Esq' on final leaf, 167 leaves, mostly written on recto only, each leaf with watermarked either 'Pro Patria Maid of Dort' or 'VI', 13 blank leaves at end, browning, spotting, seventeenth century panelled calf, scuffed, rebacked, losses at corners, folio (315 x 195mm.), late seventeenth to mid eighteenth centuryFootnotes:'THIS IS PROPER FOR A SECOND COURSE SIDE DISH OR MIDDLE DISH FOR SUPPER': an attractive mostly culinary recipe book, including a set of menus and decorative table plans suggesting how to serve the dishes à la française. It was in the early eighteenth century that English cookery books began including table plans as well as 'bills of fare' in their pages, influenced possibly by seventeenth-century French writers such as François Massialot and Nicolas de Bonnefons. According to Fiona Lucraft in her paper 'The Fine Art of Eighteenth-Century Table Layouts' (The Meal: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2001, ed. Harlam Walker, p.167-73), the first English cookery book to depict how a table should be laid à la française seems to be Henry Howard's England's Newest Way of 1708. The popularity of this more formal table plan increased and by 1747, 'when Hannah Glasse declared in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy that she thought it an impertinence 'to direct a Lady how to set out her Table' she chose to stand out from the crowd of eighteenth-century cookery writers who clearly believed it was pertinent.' (Lucraft, p.165). The decorative borders in our book may also be a nod to Martha Bradley's The British Housewife of 1756 which included a 'decorative edging on the page which adds to the attractive design and seems very feminine in comparison to the strict linear arrangement of previous layouts' (Lacroft, p.171). In our volume, as was common practice, there are two courses comprising savoury and sweet dishes on the table together, with three sizes of plates relating to the type of dish being served demonstrating symmetry and a clear hierarchy of recipes, the lesser ones being placed at the corners. Our first course has a centrepiece dish of 'Beef Royall' surrounded by dishes such as a 'Lamb Pye' and 'Sheeps Tongues a la Mode', the second course comprising 'Tartes and Custards', 'Ducks and Geese', and 'Hartichokes'. A great pie or a sallamagundy could be a suitable addition, and our book contains a receipe for 'A Salamgundy' comprising chicken, rabbit and veal ('...this is proper for a second course side dish or middle dish for supper...'). Several of our recipes helpfully indicate where they should be placed on the table ('a genteel side dish' or 'serve it for a pretty side dish to your Ladyships Table') and how they should be presented to best effect ('Garnish with horse raddish, pickles barberries and shred lemon'), and are written in a clear, friendly style (in one recipe, for example, the writer apologises for repeating an instruction, saying 'I forgott I told you before...').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 6
BRADLEY (RICHARD)The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm... Directions for the Dairy... Drying and Kilning of Saffron, third edition, engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black (repair and stain at foot), occasional spotting and staining, with a loosely inserted leaf containing 2 eighteenth century MANUSCRIPT RECIPES ('A receipt to make Elder Wine from a Lady at Wandsworth', and another wine from Mr Taylor of Norfolk), modern speckled calf gilt [ESTC T184839; Bitting pp.55-56; Maclean pp.11-13; Oxford pp.58-59], Woodman & Lyon, 1728--LAURENCE (JOHN) The Clergy-Man's Recreation: shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece; The Gentleman's Recreation: or the Second Part of the Art of Gardening Improved. Containing... Curious Observations relating to Fruit-Trees: Particularly, A New Method of Building Walls with Horizontal Shelters, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plates (2 slightly frayed), 2 parts in 1 vol., each with engraved frontispiece, bookplate of William Trumbull, contemporary panelled calf, slight staining [ESTC 30847, T142272; Fussell pp.100-102; Henrey 937, 943; Hunt 437, 438], Bernard Lintott, 1717, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Bradely's work is arranged according to the months of the year. 'There are two dishes which are not likely to be imitated in the present day; one is a gammon of badger roasted, the other is viper soup' (Oxford).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Lot 64
[PLUMPTRE (ARABELLA)]Domestic Management; or, the Healthful Cookery-Book, second edition, engraved frontispiece, roughly opened causing some tears in margins, uncut in contemporary boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled [cf. Bitting p.374], B. & R. Crosby, 1813—CULPEPER (NICHOLAS) The Complete Herbal... with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities, 20 hand-coloured plates (one torn and repaired), lacks frontispiece, some foxing and browning, contemporary half roan, worn, Thomas Kelly, 1849--GIFFORD (H., Chemist) The General Receipt-Book... with Directions for Making British Wines, woodcut illustrations, publisher's illustrated boards, spine restored, some staining, old lot label on upper cover, 16mo, J. Smith, [c.1840]--KITCHENER (WILLIAM) The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep &c., woodcut diagrams (one shaved at foot), early inscriptions, ink stamp and leather label on cover of Greenwich and subsequently Melvillle Hospitals, contemporary half calf [cf. Simon BG 911-2], G.B. Whittaker, 1827--MACNISH (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Drunkenness, third edition, modern leather-backed cloth, Glasgow, W.R. M'Phun, 1829--Dinners and Dinner-Parties, or the Absurdities of Artificial Life, second edition, ownership signature of Lady Carmichael Anstruther, publisher's cloth gilt, tears to spine, Chapman & Hall, 1862--BATEMAN (WILLIAM) Magnacopia; or, a Library of Useful and Profitable Information for the Chemist and Druggist, Surgeon-Dentist, Oilman, and Licensed Victualler..., second edition, contemporary cloth-backed boards, John Churchill, 1837--Fifteen Hundred Notable Things, Comprehending a Choice Variety of Rare, Curious and Important Receipts... to which is added a Century of Inventions, by the Marquis of Worcester, 1655, second edition, engraved frontispiece ('The Art of Talking with the Fingers'), contemporary half calf, rebacked, Glasgow, D. Mackenzie, [c.1840], 8vo & 12mo (8)Footnotes:The anonymous author of Dinners and Dinner-Parties states in the Preface that it was 'written in truthfulness and charity to the five millions of unmarried daughters of England and Wales, with a view of awakening the attention of their mothers, whom half a century of sleep and bad cookery have rendered so careless that they know not what they eat, nor of what their soup is composed; and what is worse, have so largely contributed to the frightful mortality of their infants'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 72
SMITH (ALICE)The Art of Cookery: or, the Compleat-housewife... to which is added, I. The Cellar-man; or House-keeper's Director for Managing Beer and Ale... II. The Wine-maker Improved..., second edition, some light dampstaining, trimmed with loss of some headlines, catchwords and occasionally text (B4v, I3v, I4r, N2v), modern calf, gilt lettered spine (slightly faded), [cf. Maclean p.133], 8vo, for the Author, 1760Footnotes:Extremely scarce collection of recipes by Alice Smith, 'many years employed in several families', who may have helped Elizabeth Price. This edition is not listed on ESTC, which along with Maclean records a single copy of the first edition of 1758 (New York Public Library). No copies of either edition have been traced in auction records.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 80
WOOLLEY (HANNAH)The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery. Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex. To which is added, A Supplement, Presented to all Ingenious Ladies, and Gentlewomen, 2 parts (and supplement) in 1 vol., third edition, engraved frontispiece incorporating 5 kitchen scenes, with initial licence leaf and advertisement leaf after Part 2, woodcut ornaments and head-pieces, occasional soiling, a few headlines just shaved, nineteenth century diced calf, double gilt filet border on sides, spine with gilt raised bands and red morocco label, slightly rubbed, some spots to upper cover [ESTC R221176; Bitting p.504; Oxford p.35; cf. Simon BG 1628], 12mo, Richard Lowndes, 1675-1674Footnotes:'Hannah Woolley or Woley... was a letter-writer and an industrious woman whose book of recipes, menus and directions to servants is well put together' (Simon). She was possibly the first person to earn a living from books on household management, and sought to address servants for the first time. Woolley introduced unfashionable ingredients such as anchovies, capers and wine into her simplified dishes, and helped bring in pumpkins and molasses from the New World. Included here are recipes for a trifle with cream but no custard, a gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and mince pies containing meat as well as dried fruits. The book also contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding. The first edition appeared in 1670, and this third edition, with separate title pages to Part 2 and the Supplement both dated 1674, was the first to contain the Supplement.Provenance: Last leaf with old ink inscription 'No. 1060'; Edward Winstanley, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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