[(?) RUTHVEN, Sir Thomas (First Baron of Freeland)] The Ladies Cabinet Enlarged and Opened ... Comprized Under Three General Heads, viz. of 1. Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c. 2. Physick and Chirurgery. 3. Cookery and Houswifery. Whereunto is added, Sundry Experiments and Choice Extractions of Waters, Oyls, &c., London, by T.M. for G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1655, 12°, second edition (occasional light soiling, and staining to upper margins), 19th-century cloth (spine wormed with slight loss). [Wing R2398; cf. Vicaire 666; Bitting p. 411-412; Oxford p. 21] | Christie's

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[(?) RUTHVEN, Sir Thomas (First Baron of Freeland)] The Ladies Cabinet Enlarged and Opened ... Comprized Under Three General Heads, viz. of 1. Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c. 2. Physick and Chirurgery. 3. Cookery and Houswifery. Whereunto is added, Sundry Experiments and Choice Extractions of Waters, Oyls, &c., London, by T.M. for G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1655, 12°, second edition (occasional light soiling, and staining to upper margins), 19th-century cloth (spine wormed with slight loss). [Wing R2398; cf. Vicaire 666; Bitting p. 411-412; Oxford p. 21]

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[(?) RUTHVEN, Sir Thomas (First Baron of Freeland)] The Ladies Cabinet Enlarged and Opened ... Comprized Under Three General Heads, viz. of 1. Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c. 2. Physick and Chirurgery. 3. Cookery and Houswifery. Whereunto is added, Sundry Experiments and Choice Extractions of Waters, Oyls, &c., London, by T.M. for G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1655, 12°, second edition (occasional light soiling, and staining to upper margins), 19th-century cloth (spine wormed with slight loss). [Wing R2398; cf. Vicaire 666; Bitting p. 411-412; Oxford p. 21]

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There is some doubt as to the authorship of this work. The new Wing ascribes it to the initials M.B. [B136]. There is also a possibility that the work is by Susan, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn (d. 1676).

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