ITALIAN MANUSCRIPT COOKERY & MEDICINE BOOK CIRCA 1767

ITALIAN MANUSCRIPT COOKERY & MEDICINE BOOK CIRCA 1767

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[ANON]. Italian Manuscript Cookery and Medicine Book. [Sicily, Italy] circa 1767.

MANUSCRIPT CULINARY AND MEDICINAL RECIPE BOOK. Two parts in one, the second part bearing the date 1767. Hardback - bound in the contemporary thick card covers. Approximately 250 leaves of Italian script (Sicilian dialect), entirely manuscript in black ink on quality paper by an accomplished hand, evidently complete, in single column of up to 30 lines in a single hand, pages hand-numbered on rectos and versos, with some additional blank leaves, tables in the text, index at the end. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Covers somewhat soiled, the upper joint partially split in the middle. Interior largely well-preserved with some light toning, thumbing, and staining, a couple of old institutional stamps.

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