Rare popular book with over 1500 "secrets" or interesting recipes and domestic remedies by Carolus Battus (or Carel Baten/Batin, ca. 1540-ca. 1617), a Flemish refugee who from 1588 to 1601 was town physician in Dordrecht. He became especially famous for this popular collection of recipes for all sorts of illnesses for both man and beast.
The work was first published in Dordrecht in 1600 under a slightly different title than our edition of 1650, published in Haarlem and Amsterdam. Many other editions appeared, in 1656 and 1661 in Amsterdam, and in 1664 and 1694 in Leeuwarden. The work describes facts, recipes and remedies for the kitchen, garden and hunting field, for example how to make a candle that cannot be blown out, how to strengthen a persons memory, how to make trees fertile and even how to make glass green. A supplement is added concerning the making of wine, ink, and paint.
With a printed bookplate on the recto of the first flyleaf ("B.W. R.v.d.L."). The binding is very slightly stained, glue stains on the front flyleaves from the bookplate. Otherwise in good condition. BMN 57; Landwehr, Het nederl. Kookboek, nr. 8 note; STCN 822850389 (3 copies); USTC 1026065 (3 copies, same as STCN); WorldCat 81478859, 1237243892 (2 copies, not in STCN/USTC); cf. Muller 761 and 762 (other eds.); not in any of the other gastronomic or wine bibliographies.