Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[TRYON, THOMAS.] The Way to get Wealth: or, A New and Easie Way to make Twenty Three sorts of Wine, equal to that of France [etc.]. 120 pages. bound after: The way to get Wealth . . . Directing how to make 23 sorts of English wine, equal to that of France with their virtues. 84 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 12mo, old marbled boards with later leather back and corners; contents toned or browned, margins trimmed affecting affecting bottom of imprint and last line of text on some leaves in the first edition and some headlines in the third edition. London: G. Conyers, [1701?]; 1703

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First and third editions of a collection of winemaking and other beverage recipes as well as miscellaneous practical information. Tryon (1634-1703) was an author of advice books who advocated vegetarianism and ascetic living in general as the way to health and to God.