Manuscript volume, on paper, in several hands, containing accounts and recipes apparently recorded by members of the Bones family of Essex. There are thirteen cookery recipes for wines and cordials, orange water, oyster loaves and gingerbread. Medica...
Description:
Annotations and pen trials in various hands on pastedowns and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., Great Britain., and Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Bone family. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, Households, Medicine, Plague, Recipes, and Economic conditions
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of poems dated between 1780 and 1798; and a collection of memoranda on horticulture, soil preparation, animal husbandry, vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, and shrubs dated in the 1840s. The first part co...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, United States., and United States
Subject (Name):
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Lindley, John, 1799-1865., Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793., McIntosh, Charles, 1794-1864., Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819., Pye, Henry James, 1745-1813., and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English poetry, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Fruit-culture, Gardening, Horticulture, Plant-soil relationships, Recipes, Satirical verse, English, Foreign relations, and Politics and government
BEIN 2005 970: Wormed in bottom margin throughout, no loss of text. Autograph: Elenor Hatcher her booke 1666. Autograph: Rachel Dando her book. Autograph: Rachel Wilson her book. Autograph: Sarah Baylie her hand. Ms. notes on binders blank at end. Bin...
Publisher:
Printed by H[umfrey].L[ownes]. and are to be sould by Arthur Iohnson
Manuscript notebook in a single hand. All versos and some rectos are divided into two columns and filled with very brief diary entries recording household work, pastimes, meals, illnesses, visitors, weather and local events, and trips to neighboring t...
Description:
Miss Barton apparently lived in a town in Suffolk, England.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Suffolk (England), Women, and Social conditions
Subject (Name):
Barton, Miss.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, English diaries, Women authors, Recipes, Single women, Ecomonic conditions, Social conditions, and Social life and customs
Holograph commonplace book containing excerpts from books, magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including antiquities; recent history and politics; voyages of discovery; agriculture and agricultural improvement; natural history; methods ...
Description:
Richard Bailye of Lichfield (b. 1718) was a schoolfellow of Peter and David Garrick at the Lichfield Grammar School, and joined them in the wine trade for several years in the 1760s. Bailye probably continued his father's bookselling business in Lich...
Holograph diaryof a two-day journey from Uley through Scotland and England, and then back to Uley. The author focuses primarily on recording the names of the towns he visits, along with the weather, the names of places where he dines and sleeps, and ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Scotland., Great Britain., England, Great Britain, and Scotland
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830. and Owen, Robert, 1771-1858.
Subject (Topic):
Hotels, Recipes, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Manuscript in at least two hands containing 7 medical charms and 25 medical receipts. There are treatments for worms, sore throats, ague and fever, hornet stings, snake bites, whooping cough, scurvy and rashes, as well as a recipe for opodeldoc. The c...
Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing 72 pages of medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas. Contents include many medical recipes, such as traditional herbal washes, broths, salves, oils and pills for specific ailments, including bald...
Description:
Robert Paston, first Earl of Yarmouth (1631-1683), English politician, collector of art, books, and curios, and scientist. One of the Original Fellows of the Royal Society, he conducted alchemical experiments with Thomas Henshaw and studied the medica...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Paracelsus, 1493-1541 and Yarmouth, Robert Paston, Earl of, 1631-1683.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Alchemy, Chemistry, Cooking, English, Health, Iatrophysical school, Medicine, Medicine, Popular, Recipes, Traditional medicine, Workshop recipes, Early works to 1800, and Intellectual life
Manuscript recipe book, in a single hand, containing medical and culinary recipes. Medical recipes include remedies for "a cancer on the breast," consumption, whooping cough, palsy, "yallow janders" (jaundice) and convulsions, as well as one for "Plag...
Description:
Ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf, with partial index of recipes on verso.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 502 cooking recipes arranged in 14 sections, with such titles as Wet Sweet Meats; Dry Sweet Meats; Creams and Cheeses; Possetts and Sillibubs; Puddings and Pyes; Soups and Made Dishes; To Pickell; and T...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Canning and preserving, Cooking, English, Cooking (Puddings), Menus, Recipes, and Wine and wine making
