Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MARKHAM, GERVASE. The English Hous-Wife, containing The inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleat Woman. [8], 80, 73-188 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked, faint circular stain on front cover, later laid paper endleaves; some marginal soiling. London: W. Wilson and George Sawbridge, 1664

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Guide to home remedies, cookery, and miscellaneous household skills, forming the third part of the 1664 edition of Markham's A Way to Get Wealth, and also issued separately. It first appeared as the second part of his 1615 Countrey Contentments. Wing M679.