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MUFFETT, Thomas (1553-1604). Healths Improvement: or, Rules [for] the Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all Sorts of Food used in this Nation, edited by Christopher Bennet. London: T. Newcomb for S. Thomson, 1655. 4° (181 x 140mm). With the initial imprimatur leaf (title and conjugate leaf detached, a little very light discolouration). Contemporary English sheep (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Littleton Donys (later 17th-century signature on title).
FIRST EDITION of the entolomogist Thomas Muffett's (or Moffet's) dietetic treatise on the food commonly eaten in this country in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the important observation, made for the first time, that eating liver is beneficial to certain eye diseases. Many authorities aver that the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffett describes Muffett's daughter or stepdaughter, Patience.
FIRST EDITION of the entolomogist Thomas Muffett's (or Moffet's) dietetic treatise on the food commonly eaten in this country in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the important observation, made for the first time, that eating liver is beneficial to certain eye diseases. Many authorities aver that the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffett describes Muffett's daughter or stepdaughter, Patience.
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