BATTUS, Carolus. Secreet-boeck van vele diversche en heerlicke consten in veelderleye materien ...
Including: Aenhanghsel van verscheyden sonderlinge secreten, in 't maken, bereyden en bewaren van alderhande wijnen, als ook verwen[!], incten ende 't gene de verruw-konst en schrijf-konst aengaet.
Haarlem, Thomas Fonteyn, 1650-1651. 12mo. With a vignette built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, a divisional title page for the appendix, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, modern endpapers. 490, [1], [1 blank], 73, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BATTUS, Carolus. Het secreet-boek vol heerlijke konsten. Als van de hooftstoffen in elks gebruik, vande gebreken, siekten en qualen der menschen, van tamme en wilde dieren ..., bloemen, kruiden en saden ..., van olien en salven te bereiden, van distileren en andere weetenschappen; met een aenhangsel verrijkt, uyt een groot getal Latijnsche, Italiaansche, Francoische, Hoog- en Neder-duitsche autheuren vergadert.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1694. 12mo. With a woodcut vignet on title-page. Contemporary vellum with boards partly folded over the edge, with manuscript short-title on spine. 573, [3] pp. Full description

CHAPELLE, Vincent la. Le cuisinier moderne, qui aprend à donner toutes sortes de repas, en gras & en maigre, dune manière plus délicate que ce qui en a été écrit jusquà present ...
The Hague, printed by Antoine de Groot for Antoine van Dole ["aux dépens de lauteur"], 1736. 4 volumes bound as 2. 8vo. With the title pages printed in red and black, a series of 7 (large) folding engraved plates (numbered I-VII in the plate) depicting table settings for 12 to 100 "couverts" and 4 folding printed text-leaves (numbered I-VII on recto and verso) with descriptions of the menues for the various diners, 4 folding engraved plates depicting various silver plates ("Modelle des plats") & 3 silver table showpieces for the various courses, and 1 woodcut armorial head-piece (on the dedication to Stadtholder William IV in part 1). Uniform contemporary half mottled calf, sprinkled paper sides, gold-tooled spine with greenish-blue and brown morocco title-labels lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], 261, [1 blank], [15], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 258, [14]; [1], [1 blank], 288, [16], [1], [1 blank], 313, [1 blank], [20] pp. Full description

CHOCOLAT FOUCHER. [Almanac chocolat Foucher].
Paris, (colophon:) Duffit, 1922 Ca. 5.8 x 4 cm. The calendar has been printed in red and black. Contemporary wrappers stapled to the bookblock, with a blue floral design on the front. [20] ll. Full description

COLLIGNON D'ANCY, Théodore. Nouveau mode de culture et d'echalassement de la vigne, applicable à tous les vignobles où l'on cultive les vignes basses.
Metz, printed by Dembour and Gangel for Warion, [1847]. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on the title-page, and 3 large folding plates, lithographed by Dembours and Gangel. Modern half morocco, preserving the original illustrated wrappers. VI, [2], 191, [1 blank] pp. Full description

COMMERELL, Abbé de, John Coakley LETTSOM (transl.) and Jan Christiaan SEPP (transl.) Bericht wegens de aankweeking en het gebruik van den schaarsheid- of mangel-wortel.
Amsterdam, C.N. Guerin, 1789. 8vo. With 1 folding hand-coloured plate and a woodcut tailpiece of a fruit basket. 19th-century half cloth, Stormont marbled sides. [4], XII, 80 pp. Full description

GENESY, Amedeo. Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. ... Nuova edizione.
With: (2) IDEM. La vite piramidale. ... Seconda edizione.
Torino, Francesco Casanova (back of title-page: printed by Vincenzo Bona), 1891. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut frontispiece showing the Fresia Grossa variety of grape vine and a fruit tree, each volume with several woodcut illustrations in the text and with a publishers catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publishers printed paper wrappers. [2], X, 200; 64 pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Prosperitatis Germaniae. Pars prima [-Pars secunda]. In quâ de vini, frumenti, & ligni concentration, eorumque utiliore, quam hactenus, usu agitur. ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonnius, 1656-1657. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [10], 118; [4], 72 pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Consolatio navigantium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1657.
With:
(2) IDEM. Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655.
(3) IDEM. Tractatus de medicina universali, sive auro potabili vero, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.
(4) IDEM. Miraculi mundi continuatio, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.
(5) IDEM. Tractatus de natura salium.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.
(6) IDEM. Tractatus de signatura salium, metallorum, et planetarum, ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659. 6 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 4 with 3 engraved folding plates.
Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 4 cords, gold fillets on spine and sides. 96; 28, [4 blank]; 75, [2], [3 blank]; 133, [3 blank]; [16], 96; 44, [4 blank] pp. Full description

IBN SINA (AVICENNA), Maynus de MAYNIS, Arnaldus de VILLANOVA, [Roger BACON] and others. Regimen sanitatis Magnini Mediolanensis ... Insuper opusculu[m] De flebothomia editum ... Reginaldo de Villa Nova. Additur quoq[ue] Astronomia Hippocratis ... de variis egritudinibus et morbis. Item Secreta Hippogratis. Item Averrois De venenis. Ite[m] Quid pro quo apothecariorum ... Nicolaum ... Cum no[n]nullis insuper Avicenne: ...
[Lyon], publishers device of B[arthélemy] T[rot] (colophon: Lyon, printed by Jacques Myt, 6 February 1517). Small 4to (19 x 14 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with Trots woodcut publishers device (lion holding arms bearing a globus cruciger with a parochial cross and initials BT), 12 decorated woodcut initials (white-on-black "Lombardic" capitals with leaf and flower decorations, 3 series) plus 3 repeats. Set in rotunda gothic types (2 sizes) with 3-line "Lombardic" capitals (and a couple 2-line), and 2 spaces with guide letters left to be filled in by hand. 17th-century(?) calf, sewn on 5 double supports, gold-tooled spine with titles in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of 6 compartments and a fleur-de-lis in each of the others, blind fillets on sides. Rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. CI, [3] ll. Full description