Fine Books / Rare THEVENOT, MELCHISÉDEC - The Art of Swimming - London - 1789 The Art of Swimming.... With Advice for Bathing. by Moniseur Thevenot, John Lever, Third Edition, London,1789.... [More] £1000.00  [ WOOLLEY, Hannah ] Lady's Delight - Cookery - Gardening - Desserts -London-c1732 The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight, in preserving, physick, beautyfying [sic], cookery, and gardening. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying, fruits and flowers, and making all sorts of conserves, syrups, jellies, and pickles... after Hannah Woolley. London : Printed for John Willis and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible in Great-Tower-Street, [1732?]... [More] £1450.00 .jpeg) JOHNSON, Mary - Madam Johnson's Present Young Woman's Companion - Cookery 1765 Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge. London : printed for J. Fuller, in Blowbladder Street; and W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1765.... 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The Wanderings or Falsifications of the one Thought of Frater Perdurabo Which Thought is Itself Untrue, London, Wieland and Co, South Kensington, 1913.... [More] £1250.00  BADCOCK, William - New Touch-stone for Gold and Silver Wares - London -1679 A new touch-stone for gold and silver wares. Directing all buyers of large plate, or small works, (as silver or gold hilts, buckles, watch-cases, pins and studs in watch-cases, money-boxes, tobacco-boxes, bells and sockets for corals, buttons and tags for garments, chirurgeons-instruments, rings, chains, lockets, or other goldsmiths works) how to know whether they buy or wear such as are of the lawful standard-allay, or adulterated and unlawful; and how to recover recompence against the offenders. And also discovering the principal matters of the goldsmiths and cutlers (and material things of all other manual) trades. The second edition, corrected and much enlarged, by W.B. of London, goldsmith. 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