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JOANNES, DE MEDIOLANO. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni: or the school of Salernes Regiment of Health, London: B. Alsop, 1649 [i.e.1650]. 4° (178 x 132mm). Woodcut title border, head- and tail-pieces. (Outer margins repaired, a little marginal worming.) Contemporary calf, double blindtooled fillet, morocco lettering piece on spine (a few cracks to the back board, corners worn). Provenance: early marginal annotations. The original Latin verse text, with an English translation by Philemon Holland, of Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum and with a translation by Thomas Paynell of the commentary by Arnaldus de Villanova. Wing (2nd edition) V384.

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JOANNES, DE MEDIOLANO. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni: or the school of Salernes Regiment of Health, London: B. Alsop, 1649 [i.e.1650]. 4° (178 x 132mm). Woodcut title border, head- and tail-pieces. (Outer margins repaired, a little marginal worming.) Contemporary calf, double blindtooled fillet, morocco lettering piece on spine (a few cracks to the back board, corners worn). Provenance: early marginal annotations. The original Latin verse text, with an English translation by Philemon Holland, of Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum and with a translation by Thomas Paynell of the commentary by Arnaldus de Villanova. Wing (2nd edition) V384.

A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. 4° (287 x 217). (Occasional spotting, last leaf slightly soiled.) Modern straight-grained morocco, morocco lettering piece on spine (a little rubbed). Provenance: William Walcot Esq. (armorial plate). ESTC 91228.

With Jules Gouffé's The Royal Cookery book (London, 1868), Mrs. A. B. Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes (London, 1894) and another cookery book (12°, 112 x 61mm), 17th-century, unbound and lacking all before c12, containing chapters, set within woodcut borders, on 'The Art of Preserving', 'Secrets in distillation', 'Cookery and Huswifery' and 'Sweete Powders, Ointments, Beauties, etc.'. (5)
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