A manuscript book containing a good quantity of circa late 1...

Hammer

£210

A manuscript book containing a good quantity of circa late 18th to mid 19th Century entries, including cookery receipts, arithmetic, medical remedies, veterinary receipts, domestic receipts etc, over 160 pages of manuscript entries in total, including approx. 56 pages of arithmetic, including workings for stocks and bonds calculations, weights, various mathematical problems/hypotheses, geometrical progression, tables etc; approx. 42 pages of cookery recipes, including gingerbread pudding, mock champagne, ginger wine, sauce royal, Grantham gingerbread, plum pudding, apple snowballs, preserved vegetable marrow, raisin cheese, Cambridgeshire sauce, pickling kidney beans etc etc; remaining pages of entries mainly medical remedies/cures, some veterinary, including receipt for the gaunders, spermaceti ointment, purge after a cold, to kill worms, offensive feet, eye and mouth waters, a good salve for sore lips or nipples, salve for a burn or a scald, cure for neuralgia, camphor balls, receipt for limbago, paregoric elixir, tincture of opium, pomatum for the hair, opening pills for the piles, etc etc, plus a few pages of domestic receipts various oil colours/pigments etc, the m/s entries throughout in many different hands, a few pages with tape repairs/reinforcement along inner edge, some leaves loose, some other printed and manuscript receipts, letters and other material loosely inserted, some different names/addresses to front pastedown, and some receipts with names/dates beneath, contemporary half calf worn, lower joint very worn, lower board part detached