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].
Prophéties perpetuelles depuis 1521 jusquà la fin du monde.
Manuscript, on paper, France, 1680 [but early 1700s] £2,750.00 More Details -
[ANONYMOUS]
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.]
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].
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].
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CERVIO, Vincenzo.
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CORTE, Claudio
The art of riding, conteining diuerse necessarie instructions
London, By H. Denham, 1584 £17,500.00 More Details -
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.
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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.
De Vita, libri tres [...] (with) De ratione victus salubris.
Basel, [Bartholomeus Westheimer], 1541. £3,750.00 More Details -
GIEGHER, Mattia
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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
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.
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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
Il petopiccino, overo Eccellenza e doti del tabacco
Viterbo, Diotallevi, [1650?] £3,750.00 More Details -
SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele.
Trattato utilissimo di molte regole, per conservare la Sanità.
Venice, haer. G. Padovano, 1554. £2,750.00 More Details
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