“That it was sacrilege to Chop a Leek”: William King - The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others (1709?) Natural History marked with a Mayan glyph

marked with a Mayan glyph

While Ptolemy’s works had been used since the Medieval period by way of Arabic translation and preservation of the text during a time when Greek literacy was uncommon in the West (see here for an example of 13th century Ptolemy text)

Publisher's green cloth binding with art nouveau style script

Sitten und meinungen der wilden in Amerika

December 25th

“That it was sacrilege to Chop a Leek”: William King - The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others (1709?) Natural History marked with a Mayan glyphKing, William. The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others, occasion'd principally by the title of a book publish'd by the doctor, being the works of Apicus Coelius concerning the soups and sauces of the antients : to which is added Horace's art of poetry, in Latin. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott [1709?]. First edition. (200 x 125 mm ) Half title, [8], 1 160. [A]4 B L8. Pp. 52 135 Latin