Lot 112 , The Queens Closet Opened. Being Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chrugery, Preserving, and Candying, &c. Which were presented to the Queen...10th edition. corrected with many new and large additions, with three exact tab

The Queens Closet Opened. Being Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chrugery, Preserving, and Candying, &c. Which were presented to the Queen...10th edition. corrected with many new and large additions, with three exact tables. portrait frontis. and 2 part titles; pagination: (10), 148, (167&170), 171-264,(265-270), 271-401&(402-408), i.e. lacks pp.149-168; old calf (later rebacked with panelled spine and brown label), 12mo. Printed for E. Blagrave... 1696. *the Queen being Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I; originally published in 1655 when she was exiled in France; the prelims. include 4pp of original "prescribers and approvers", with their various "receipts" indexed.
£160-200

Condition:
sl. leather wear, frontis. lh margin missing, outside of portraits' circular border just shaved; pp. 225/26 loss in upper margin takes out some of headline and page no.226; pp.351/52 damaged - paper repair strip (vertical) takes out 1/2 words in all lines - but most sense remains. Sigs: A-F12, H1&H12, I-S12, T6. Old ownership front free e/p. "James Warren/ His Book January 10 - 1748 / Cost -0-4"; old notes on p/down and old armorial bkplt. (Scott Adir), old ms receipt added on blank verso of last leaf.