MOFFETT THOMAS Healths Improvement 1655

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MOFFETT, THOMAS. Healths Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food Used in this Nation. [8], 296 pages, including initial license leaf. 4to, contemporary sheep, rebacked, endpapers renewed; scattered foxing, light marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, several leaves wormed in gutter and reinforced not affecting text, few minor stains at end. London: Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, 1655

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first edition. of an entertainingly written treatise on dietetics filled with historical and literary references and allusions, composed in the later 16th century and published posthumously. Cagle 879; Krivatsy 8011; Oxford, page 28 ("a very interesting book on the choice and preparation of food"); Une Affaire du Goût 63; Wing M2382; overlooked by Alden despite scattered New World references, including the description on page 154 of a flying fish shown to the author by Sir Francis Drake.