Sport & Leisure

 

From sin-derived sicknesses, the dangers of dancing, and the divinity of tobacco to the arts of culinary carving and folding table linen, works in this category cover a plethora of topics relating to entertainment and lifestyle.

Below find instructions, from antiquity to the early 1700s, on themes such as food, diet, and nutrition, horticulture and viticulture, husbandry and horsemanship, falconry, make-up, and dancing.

 

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  • [ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES].

    [ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES]. Prophéties perpetuelles depuis 1521 jusquà la fin du monde.

    Manuscript, on paper, France, 1680 [but early 1700s] £2,750.00 More Details

  • [ANONYMOUS]

    [Anon] The Expert Gardener, or, a treatise containing certaine necessary, secret, and ordinary knowledges in grafting and gardening:

    London, Printed by Richard Herne, 1640 £4,250.00 More Details

  • [DANEAU, Lambert.]

    [DANEAU, Lambert.] Traite des danses, Auquel est amplement resolue la question, asçauoir s’il est permis aux Chrestiens de danser.

    [Geneva], nn., 1582 £4,250.00 More Details

  • [MODENA].

    [MODENA]. Grida sopra il datio Della Carne, Pesce, & Oglio & dell’Estrattione de gl’Animali.

    Modena, Per Giulian Cassiani Stampator Ducale, 1636 £1,250.00 More Details

  • [WINE].

    [WINE]. [Cambio de Víñas en Morales.]

    Zamora (Spain), Manuscript on paper, 1455 £8,750.00 More Details

  • CERVIO, Vincenzo.

    CERVIO, Vincenzo. Il Trinciante… Ampliato et a Perfettione.

    Rome, Giulio Burchioni, 1593 £9,500.00 More Details

  • CORTE, Claudio

    CORTE, Claudio The art of riding, conteining diuerse necessarie instructions

    London, By H. Denham, 1584 £17,500.00 More Details

  • DALLINGTON, Sir Robert

    DALLINGTON, Sir Robert Aphorismes civill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie.

    London, Edward Blount, 1613 £2,750.00 More Details

  • DU CHESNE, Joseph.

    DU CHESNE, Joseph. Diaeteticon polyhistoricon.

    Paris, C. Morel, 1606. £2,650.00 More Details

  • ESTIENNE, Charles

    ESTIENNE, Charles Seminarium, et plantarium fructiferarum praesertim arborum quae post hortos conseri solent

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1540 £1,950.00 More Details

  • FICINUS, Marsilius [with] INSULANUS MENAPIUS, Gulielmus.

    FICINUS, Marsilius [with] INSULANUS MENAPIUS, Gulielmus. De Vita, libri tres [...] (with) De ratione victus salubris.

    Basel, [Bartholomeus Westheimer], 1541. £3,750.00 More Details

  • GIEGHER, Mattia

    GIEGHER, Mattia Li tre trattati

    Padua, Paolo Frambotto, 1639 £12,500.00 More Details

  • HALL, Joseph

    HALL, Joseph Occasionall Meditations. By Ios: Exon. Set forth by R.H.

    London, printed [by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet?] for Nath: Butter, 1630 £3,950.00 More Details

  • HALL, Joseph

    HALL, JOSEPH Occasionall meditations by Ios. Exon. Set forth by R.H.

    London, printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Nathaniel Butter, 1633 £1,950.00 More Details

  • MAINERI, MAINO de.

    MAINERI, MAINO de. Regimen sanitatis.

    [Strasbourg, Johann Pruss, 1503.] £7,850.00 More Details

  • MARKHAM, Gervase

    MARKHAM, Gervase A Way To Get Wealth: Containing sixe Principall Vocations or Callings, in which every good Husband or House-wife may lawfully imploy themselves…

    London, Printed by E[dward] G[riffin] for John Harison, 1638 £4,950.00 More Details

  • PICCINO, Giovanni

    PICCINO, Giovanni Il petopiccino, overo Eccellenza e doti del tabacco

    Viterbo, Diotallevi, [1650?] £3,750.00 More Details

  • SAUNDERS, George.

    SAUNDERS, George. A Treatise on Theatres.

    London, Printed for the Author, and sold by I. and J. Taylor Architectural Library, 1790 £5,750.00 More Details

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