COOK BOOKS. Collection of 12 manuscript recipe books, 17th-19th Century, in German, 4to, variously bound (the bindings often worn), comprising: ‘Wie man Biskoten, marcepan, [etc] bereitten soll’, with extensive additions, 17th-18th C, ownership inscriptions of Maria Rosalie, gräfin von Götzen and Maria Elißabeth Freÿle von Götz; ‘Koch-Buch’ comprising 481 recipes, a neat copy, 18th C, 379 pages, 4to, index, ownership inscription of Theresia Waldburger; ‘Confect-Buch’, in three parts, a neat copy, 18th C, with a latter addition; ‘Ein Soer Nutzliches Und Bewehrtes Koch-Buch’, early 18th C, neat copy, 202 pages, 4to, ownership inscription dated Abensperg, 1734; ‘Kochbuch Vor mich Maria Magdalena Louisa ?Gromin’, 1758, 164 pages, with later additions; ‘Koch Buch der Maria Elisabetha Gieglin gehörig’, 1766, two series of 83 and 35 recipes, in at least three 18th-century hands, blanks; ‘Koch Buch der Tugendreichen Jungfrau Maria Anna ?Geizrucklin ... gehörig’, 1780, neat copies of 230 recipes, with a later addition; ‘Kochbuch der Anna Maria Ammerin’, 1787, neat copies, 158 pages, index; a recipe book, [mid-18th C], expanded with a further 240 recipes transcribed in August 1788 from another cook book; cook book in 8 chapters, ‘von Pastetten zukuchen’, ‘von Dorten zu Pachen’, ‘von Paches’, etc, 18th C, a neat transcript with additions in an informal hand, with a further group of 106 numbered recipes, 1774, a few later additions; ‘Oeconomische Manuscripten’, a sammelband of four 18th-century cookery manuscripts, one with ownership note of Barbara Jassin, with a number of loose inserts, ex-libris of Ladislas Victor of Kiss-Kovalocz; recipe book, in various hands, a few entries dated 1850-1876, approx. 50 pages.