Rabelais Inc.

[Tryon, Thomas (1634-1703)]; Philotheus Physiologus (pseudonym)

The Good Houswife [Huswife, Hous-Wife, Housewife] Made a Doctor, or, Health's choice and sure friend: being a plain way of nature's own prescribing to prevent [and] cure most diseases incident to men, women, and children, by diet and kitchin-physick only. Being an appendix to the book entituled, The way to health, &c. or a further demonstration of the philosophy therein contained. With some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry. By Philotheos Physiologius, the author of The way to health, long life and happiness. The country-man's companion, &c.

London: Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, in the Holloway-Lane, near Shoreditch, [circa 1685-88?]. Octavo (14.5 x 9.5cm.), [12], 96, 91-232, [6] pages; collation: A6, B-Q8, R2 (I3 signed I2). Sheet A/R should have had R1 and R2 as A7 and A8. It was wrongly imposed so that A5r and A6v were perfected by pages of R and vice versa. The error was corrected by pasting leaves from half another.....

Price: $3,500.00

Tweed, John

Popular Observations On Regimen and Diet; In Which The Nature And Quantities of Our Common Food Are Pointed Out and Explained; Together With Practical Rules and Regulations In Regard to Health, Adapted to Various Situations and Circumstances, From Infancy to Old Age.

Chelmsford: Printed and Sold by Meggy and Chalk, circa 1820. Duodecimo, v, 248, xii pages. First edition. The author, an Essex surgeon, insists on the primacy of dietetics or nutrition to health, and traces its place in medicine back to Hippocrates, and then forward, through Cheyne, Cullen, Nisbet, etc. There are sections on general nutrition, invalid care, and the effects of exercise on digestion, but much of the book is.....

Price: $450.00

Walker, W. Hall and George Aloys Peat

Food Diet Values.

Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., [1917]. 19 x 13 cm, 15 pages. First edition. In the midst of World War I, Walker compiled excerpts from "a Blue Book dealing with the question of the Decrease of Native Population of the Colony of Fiji, published in 1896" to address the food crisis facing England. Fijian planter George Aloys Peat argues a deficiency of food led to a population decrease. Walker supplements.....

Price: $50.00

Worsnop, E.M., assisted by M.C. Blair

A Nurses Handbook of Cookery. A Help in Sickness and Convalescence. Second Edition.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 106, [2] pages. Advertisements. Second edition. A book of recipes and advice for nursing. The author was a cookery instructor for the London School Board. Near very good in publisher's illustrated blue boards. With the bookseller's ticket of L. Bruck of Sydney Australia to front paste-down.

Price: $90.00