MOFFETT, Thomas (1553-1604). Healths Improvement; or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation ... corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, London: by Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, 1655, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, with imprimatur leaf (this with tear at upper inner corner, title and a few other leaves slightly browned at margins, quire B shaved at outer margin slightly affecting shoulder notes, 2I2r soiled), late 19th-century half calf, marbled edges. [Krivatsy 8011; Vicaire 613; Wing M2382]

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MOFFETT, Thomas (1553-1604). Healths Improvement; or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation ... corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, London: by Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, 1655, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, with imprimatur leaf (this with tear at upper inner corner, title and a few other leaves slightly browned at margins, quire B shaved at outer margin slightly affecting shoulder notes, 2I2r soiled), late 19th-century half calf, marbled edges. [Krivatsy 8011; Vicaire 613; Wing M2382]

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shelf mark and inscription in an early hand to recto of imprimatur leaf and title.

拍品專文

Among the many interest of Thomas Moffett's or Thomas Muffet's book is the fact that he is regarded as the first person in English medical works to refer to the value of liver in eye disease. Liver is considered wholesome because it would "please the taste, clear the eye-sight, agree with the stomach, and encrease bloud" (quoted by Drummond & Wilbraham, p. 153).