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Auction archive: Lot number 41

PAGEIT, R. MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK, C.1700-1750

Books for Cooks
15 Jul 2010
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,528 - US$2,292
Price realised:
£2,750
ca. US$4,202
Auction archive: Lot number 41

PAGEIT, R. MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK, C.1700-1750

Books for Cooks
15 Jul 2010
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,528 - US$2,292
Price realised:
£2,750
ca. US$4,202
Beschreibung:

Pageit, Richard. HIS MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK containing c.120 entries for wines, meat and fish dishes, cakes, biscuits, preserves, soups, sauces, pies and other dishes, including a recipe for veal soup in verse "Sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift", with a few medicinal recipes such as "The famous American Receipt for the Rheumatism", "An Excellent Syrup for preserving the Lungs", and a recipe for plague water dated 12 July 1721 "Sent by Monsr. P. Daulhat to Coll: John Archer, who afterwards unhappily shot himself" c.80 pages (most with contemporary pagination) plus blanks, mostly in a single hand, two recipes loosely inserted, oblong 8vo (180 x 240 mm.), [1700-c.1750], contemporary green painted vellum, central panel of front cover lettered in gilt "Richard Pageit 25t March 1700", light staining throughout, extremities worn

Auction archive: Lot number 41
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 2010
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Pageit, Richard. HIS MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK containing c.120 entries for wines, meat and fish dishes, cakes, biscuits, preserves, soups, sauces, pies and other dishes, including a recipe for veal soup in verse "Sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift", with a few medicinal recipes such as "The famous American Receipt for the Rheumatism", "An Excellent Syrup for preserving the Lungs", and a recipe for plague water dated 12 July 1721 "Sent by Monsr. P. Daulhat to Coll: John Archer, who afterwards unhappily shot himself" c.80 pages (most with contemporary pagination) plus blanks, mostly in a single hand, two recipes loosely inserted, oblong 8vo (180 x 240 mm.), [1700-c.1750], contemporary green painted vellum, central panel of front cover lettered in gilt "Richard Pageit 25t March 1700", light staining throughout, extremities worn

Auction archive: Lot number 41
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 2010
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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